Cora and Terry Kreachbaum
Cora and Terry Kreachbaum have been married for 45 years and have two daughters. Cora Kreachbaum has fought a battle against breast cancer that she's now losing. Cancer is now in other parts of her body and she's made a choice to receive palliative care at home to manage the pain. A team comprised of a doctor, nurse, social worker and volunteer visit her on a regular basis. What Cora wants most now is quality of life rather than quantity. Whatever time left she has left, she wants to spend surrounded by family and friends.
Cora Kreachbaum delivers a strong message of love and forgiveness as she begins to tell her loved ones good bye.
For caregivers, anticipatory grief - the sense of loss before the death - starts from the onset of care and progresses until the one cared for dies.
For most people today, there is a period of time, sometimes years, before a seriously or critically ill senior can no longer function. Author of Passages in Caregiving Gail Sheehy, discusses how a senior approaching the end of life should not be "waiting to die."
In Cora and Terry Kreachbaum's story, as her cancer spreads, palliative care improves the quality of life for both patient and caregiver, easing pain and anxiety. What is palliative care and how is it different from end of life care called hospice?
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