Difficult, but necessary....
http://goo.gl/RkyTke“It is always a shock when someone dies,” as Shirley Roberts writes in her great book, Doris Inc. “None of us is ever truly ready to lose our parents or our spouse.”
But we can make the end of life for our loved one with dementia as peaceful, comfortable and graceful as possible.
As Roberts points out: Face the reality of death head on. Accept inevitability of physical decline and dying, and the reality that we can’t control when our loved ones and we will die.
Here is Roberts’ guide for creating a comfortable home, building a palliative-care team, and providing the emotional, psychological and physical comfort your loved one will need.
The critical thing to remember: “Most people will not lose their emotions, sense of touch or hearing until the last moments of life.”