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njlib

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8. Occasionally, we have to deal with the same kind of family

Reply to mucifer (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:46 AM

Oct 2015

The resident is clearly uncomfortable & suffering, but the family only wants them to get OTC drugs. If someone's in their 80's or 90's, at the end of their life, how can the main concern be addiction?? I can understand parents with a terminally ill child being in denial or unable to accept the situation, always hoping that there's a chance their child will somehow recover. But people with elderly parents/relatives who are clearly at the end of a very long life? Why would anyone want them to needlessly suffer?

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