Sentences with phrase «member near the end of life»

Currently, there is a compassionate care benefit available to people caring for a family member near the end of life, but the new benefit would offer 15 weeks of leave — at 55 per cent salary — when caring for a loved one with any serious illness or injury.

Currently, there is a compassionate care benefit available to people caring for a family member near the end of life, but the new benefit would offer 15 weeks of leave — at 55 per cent salary — when caring for a loved one with any serious illness or injury.

Not exact matches

We end up shooting the breeze about family members of hers who live near Peterborough — and have roads named after them.

«Metropolitan» follows the life of members of the urban haute bourgeoise, a pair of love - starved upper - class men dealing with anti-American sentiment in «Barcelona,» and in «The Last Days of Disco,» two young women juggling day jobs in publishing while dancing their nights away near the end of the nightclub era.

Now 81, Jackson has not been on Broadway since 1988 — she spent 23 of the intervening years as a member of the British Parliament — and here she plays the character identified as A: a rich, mean elderly woman nattering about her life as she nears the end of it.

Yet, we are tasked with an enormous decision and responsibility — recognizing the signs that quality of life has eroded too far, or that end of life is near — and making the decision to say goodbye to our four - legged family member.

Hospice care, or «pawspice,» the term coined by Alice Villalobos, DVM, former President of the American Association of Human Animal Bond Veterinarians (AAHABV) and founding member of the Veterinary Cancer Society, is supportive assistance in evaluating and managing our pets» quality of life as they near the end of their days, a time period that can span from days to months.

Many of us have faced hard decisions about what care a family member received near the end of their life.