Educating the Community about End-of-Life Care Options
June 23, 2014
It’s a simple video featuring interviews with doctors, nurses and the family members of a dying patient in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease whose family turned to hospice care so the patient could spend her last days at home among loved ones. The video is a passion project of Kyusuk “Stephan” Chung, associate professor, health administration in the Department of Health Sciences. It is entirely in Spanish (with English subtitles) and is designed to educate a population--in this instance, the Latino community, that may not know that end-of-life care options extend beyond putting a dying loved one in the hospital or family members struggling on their own to care for that person at home.