'We Made This Family': End-of-Life Care in the LGBT Community
Category: WELLNESS
The health care team's sensitivity to identity -- of individual and family -- can mean the difference between achieving a "good death," in which a person's wishes are followed to the end, and a death that is especially difficult, painful, prolonged or leaves a great deal of unresolved feelings in its wake.
By Jeanne Dennis, Contributor
Senior vice president, VNSNY Hospice Care, 2014-01-06