End of Life: Nutrition and Hydration Considerations

Course overview

As someone's ability to eat and drink changes near the end of their life, it is essential to educate and support them and their caregivers. However, these conversations can be full of misconceptions. The course discusses the emotional impact of changes in eating and drinking at the end of life and best practices for managing them. This course also teaches you how to provide compassionate care to people and their caregivers as their illness progresses. This course provides non-licensed direct care workers with information on nutrition changes at the end of life and ways to handle them compassionately.