Ella Miller Final paper
Ella Miller’s End of Life Crisis
LaToya Dail
SOC 313 Social Implications of Medical Issues
Mark Mussman
May 19, 2015
The Life of Ella Miller Getting prepared for death can be an exhausting experience for the patient and their family. It is very important that the patient not only knows what they want as far as their right to receive or reject treatment and medications or knowing whether they want to receive palliative care at home or in a hospital setting to include the advantages and disadvantages of each. The main focus of this paper is to give the reader an in depth look on how an end of life crisis affects a patient and their family. Ella is a breast cancer patient who just came out of remission and is at the end of her life. Her and her husband John along with other members of her family are not in agreement with her end of life plans because of cultural indifferences. The reader should be aware of the importance of patient’s rights and how these rights tend to bring about psychological and social changes with the patient and their caregivers especially when dealing with a chronic illness like breast cancer. This paper will focus not only on Ella’s beliefs regarding her end of life care and how her decisions and this situation will affect her family but it will also consider the biological makeup of her and her condition. It will also analyze how cancer affects the people involved in Ella’s care at the micro, mezzo, macro levels, and her lifespan development.
Scenario
Grandmother Ella has been dealing with cancer for years now and has tried alternative remedies and juicing. She went into remission for some time, but now the cancer has returned and she is in the hospital. Her husband, of American Indian descent, who is into traditional methods of treatment has his own ideas about what needs to be done as Ella comes to the end of her life. Ella has her preferences, though she is now so weak that she has given up in many ways. The family members are
LaToya Dail
SOC 313 Social Implications of Medical Issues
Mark Mussman
May 19, 2015
The Life of Ella Miller Getting prepared for death can be an exhausting experience for the patient and their family. It is very important that the patient not only knows what they want as far as their right to receive or reject treatment and medications or knowing whether they want to receive palliative care at home or in a hospital setting to include the advantages and disadvantages of each. The main focus of this paper is to give the reader an in depth look on how an end of life crisis affects a patient and their family. Ella is a breast cancer patient who just came out of remission and is at the end of her life. Her and her husband John along with other members of her family are not in agreement with her end of life plans because of cultural indifferences. The reader should be aware of the importance of patient’s rights and how these rights tend to bring about psychological and social changes with the patient and their caregivers especially when dealing with a chronic illness like breast cancer. This paper will focus not only on Ella’s beliefs regarding her end of life care and how her decisions and this situation will affect her family but it will also consider the biological makeup of her and her condition. It will also analyze how cancer affects the people involved in Ella’s care at the micro, mezzo, macro levels, and her lifespan development.
Scenario
Grandmother Ella has been dealing with cancer for years now and has tried alternative remedies and juicing. She went into remission for some time, but now the cancer has returned and she is in the hospital. Her husband, of American Indian descent, who is into traditional methods of treatment has his own ideas about what needs to be done as Ella comes to the end of her life. Ella has her preferences, though she is now so weak that she has given up in many ways. The family members are