ABC Wellness & Health

By wellness reporter Olivia Willis

Palliative care identifies and treats signs, which can be real, psychological, social or spiritual.

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It had beenn’t through to the last hours of Sue McKeough’s life that her spouse Alan Bevan surely could find her end-of-life care.

Sue had dropped into a coma weeks prior, but Mr Bevan, 68, felt he had been the only person responsible for his spouse’s care.

“as much as that time, there have been no experts here. It seemed for her,” he said that it was just me caring.

“we demonstrably knew I was not completely yes just what the prognosis had been. that she ended up being gravely sick, but”

Sue ended up being identified as having Alzheimer’s condition disease at 49 and passed away simply 5 years later on in a medical house.

“we had thought that in a first-world country like Australia, there is palliative care solutions available,” Mr Bevan stated.

“But in my opinion, that has beenn’t the scenario.”

A palliative care specialist — someone who has expertise in providing comfort to people at the end of life — until her last day despite attempts through Sue’s nursing home and GP, Mr Bevan wasn’t able to find his wife.

“I’d guaranteed … he said that I would hold her hand to the very end.

“l had done that through some pretty stuff that is tough. However in those final little while, we felt I becamen’t capable give you the degree of care that she needed that she needed, nor was I able to get her the care.

“we discovered that become extraordinarily upsetting.”

Sue McKeough ended up being clinically determined to have Alzheimer’s disease in the chronilogical age of 49.

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Mr Bevan has become hoping that by sharing Sue’s story, he is able to make it possible to alter end-of-life care in Australia for the higher. Continue reading →