
The process of prescribing medications, explaining the risks and benefits has classically been the role and responsibility of physicians with support from other health care providers such as pharmacists.

Elderly members of society face end of life struggles while acknowledging physical and mental difficulties associated with the coming of life's end.

The use of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) has become relatively commonplace
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With the rapidly increasing numbers of elders in North American Society, the prevalence of those living with dementia is clearly on the increase.

It is clear to anyone who has cared for someone experiencing dementia that the issues of memory and recall are not the ones that play havoc with the individual and their caregivers, but the behavioural challenges.

The last decade has seen an enormous growth in the interest in the recognition of and intervention in those diagnosed and living with the whole range of cognitive impairment and frank dementia.