Kate Granger

Elderly Medicine Registrar

& terminally ill cancer patient

* Planning for the end of life: A personal and professional perspective

*About Me…

*Personal planning

1.Will

2.Funeral

3.Memory box for Chris

4.Letters to loved ones

5.Preferred Priorities for Care

6.Place of care

*In the meantime…

*Freda’s story…

*From a professional point

of view…*The ‘grim reaper’ talk

*Symptom control

*Advance Care Planning

*Determining place of care

*Family support

*Appropriate community support and follow-up

*Some closing thoughts…

Openness

Preparation

? Better death

? Better grief

Death is a part of life

Acceptance

*A beautiful poem…

“Silently one by one , in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of angels.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

*Shameless self-promotion…

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