BBC Breakfast.

Excellent piece on Hospices on BBC breakfast program @ 8.20am this morning. Watch on iPlayer if you missed it. Full marks to BBC for highlighting the work hospices do for COPD suffers approaching end of life.

[PMRPete]

YES, well worth watching.

[sassy59]

Will try and catch that Don, thanks. Xxxx

[mrsmummy]

Thanks Don. A good watch.

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Time_2_drink first enlightened me to the fact that Hospices did more than care for terminal cancer patients, which is what I thought was all they did. I think that I will be increasing my donations to them after watching that program and hopefully others will too.

[Katinka46 in reply to Hidden]

I was referred to our local hospice. Their brief is to care for patients who have life-limiting diseases that are no longer responding to treatment. It is very refreshing to be looked after by people who are not frantically trying to fix things and put well-being, quality of life, comfort and care above aggressive interventions.

[Lightup45]

Will watch this

[dall05]

Hi Don,

I have first hand experience of this. My consultant has recently referred me to the local hospice. He said were not throwing in the towel yet but there is a lot of things they do that I may find helpfull.

Since going along to the first indiductery day I have signed up to the fatigue course which a 1 1\2 hour lesson once a week for 4 weeks. It teaches you how to avoid fatigue and keep enough charge in your batteries to climb the stairs at the end of the day. 😃

There's loads more courses to follow and you meet lots of new friends with a wide range of health conditions. We're encouraged to discuss our problems and our ways of dealing with things in order to learn from each other.

It's all good Don and as you say not just a place to go and die 😊.

Will look forward to watching this program on I player

Tony ☺

[Time_2_drink in reply to dall05]

Hi. Tony I go to the hospice on a Tuesday and I must say they can't do enough for us help with problems listening ear hairdresser acupuncture massages lunch raffles and much much more I started by going to a 4week course then I was asked if I would like to go as a day patient to help with my anxiety they are brilliant

[Katinka46 in reply to Time_2_drink]

So pleased that it is working out for you. Well, as much as it can.

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Sound sound like a new person, Margaret,. 😀 So pleased👏

[susieanna]

Cant locate the programme!

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It was just part of a news item so probably wasn't held for very long. It just brought to the public's attention the work that hospices do in addition to caring for terminally ill cancer patients. Most of that information has been better covered by the above thread now.