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Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisFrom diagnosis to bereavement, 2nd Edn$
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Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: From diagnosis to bereavement, 2nd Edn

David Oliver, Gian Domenico Borasio, and Declan Walsh

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780199212934

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199212934.001.0001

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Personal Experiences

Personal Experiences

Chapter:
(p.325) Chapter 11a Personal Experiences
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Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author(s):

Linda Centers

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199212934.003.0021

This chapter provides a personal experience of someone who had taken care and lived with an ALS patient. It tells the story of Linda Centers, a healthcare provider and a daughter who cared for her mother who had suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In this chapter, she shares her experiences and suggestions related to the issues of profound loss and the experiences of abandonment. In her story, she shares her feelings of despair and fear in watching her mother waste away in complete lucidity, her feelings of loss and bereavement, and the chapter shares her pieces of advice to professionals and caregivers of ALS patients.

Keywords:   personal experience, Linda Centers, daughter, healthcare provider, profound loss, abandonment

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