Viki Kind is a clinical bioethicist in Los Angeles and Margaret Anderson is founder of Ian Anderson House, a residential cancer hospice in Oakville, Ontario. They identify the challenges for family caregivers when a loved one is at the end of life. They explain ‘compassionate decision making’, ‘hospice’ and ‘palliative care’ and discuss the ways in which these approaches support family caregivers in meeting their challenges. They explore what they see as the rights of people at the end of life and say, in their experience, how physicians and other healthcare professionals view these rights. Th
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