End of life care refers to care provided to those with terminal illnesses and focuses on comfort, quality of life, and a dignified death. It addresses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual changes that occur as life concludes. Key aspects include managing symptoms, providing emotional support, establishing advance directives, and considering options like hospice care, palliative care, and do not resuscitate orders.

2.  END OF LIFE CARE
Life and Death are the two important stages in a
human being where we across many challenges ,
disease and other problems . Older days persons
with chronic diseases, terminal illness and dying
is viewed as a taboo topics , due to which few
new concept developed for the care of person
who is at their end stage , one of those topic is
end of life

3.  END OF LIFE – it is the concluding phase of normal life
span although life can end at any age
 END OF LIFE CARE- refers to health care, not only of
a person in the final hours or days of their lives, but more
broadly care of all those with a terminal condition that has
become advanced, progressive, and incurable.

4.  Provide comfort and supportive care
 Improve the quality of remaining life
 Help to ensure dignified death

5.  Sensory changes
 Hearing and touch
 Taste and smell
 Integumentary system
 Cardiovascular system

6.  Respiratory system
 Urinary system
 Gastrointestinal system
 Musculoskeletal system

7.  Emotional feelings
 Grief

8.  Denial (D)
 Anger (A)
 Bargaining (B)
 Depression (D)

9.  Acceptance(A)

10.  Advance directives
 Durable power of attorney
 Directive to physicians
 Organ and tissue donation

11.  Euthanasia
 Euthanasia by consent
 Euthanasia by mean
 Resuscitation

12.  Palliative care
 Preparation of end of life
 Caring during final days

13.  Caring during terminally ill child
 Hospice care
 Advance directives
 Understanding CPR and DNR