This time an 88-year-old woman living in a care home.Eighty-eight-year-old female, falling [indistinct word] with a head injury [indistinct words] over.On arrival at the care home they’re met by a carer who introduces the bewildered looking woman, sitting in a wheelchair. It’s hard to believe that veteran broadcaster Joan Bakewell will celebrate her 85th birthday next month – but hardly a surprise that even at her age, she breezed through a hip replacement. And we didn’t actually have that. Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss death and dying.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DEATH: My Dying Wishes TX: 09.01.19 2000-2045 PRESENTER: JOAN BAKEWELL PRODUCER: BETH EASTWOOD Bakewell. She also discovers how religious belief can influence our experience of pain at the end of life. At the age of 35, she had an eight-year affair with playwright and actor Harold Pinter. She had terminal cancer, she was involved in a car accident, she was taken to hospital in Cambridge, the doctors decided that she should not be brought back, if she had a cardiac arrest, they didn’t discuss that with Mrs Tracy or her family and after she died the family sued the hospital and the courts upheld that the family were correct, that that decision should have been discussed either with Mrs Tracy, if she had capacity, or with family members if not. And that way allowing dignity in death effectively when it is finally to happen.Well there’s a lot to discuss there already.

Catherine.One of the key things is the underlying disease that you may have.
We get collapse, to an 83-year-old female and we get nothing else. After breaking a hip, she was taken to hospital in a state of confusion. If not, we’re resuscitating the patient.What do you feel about having to give resuscitation to the old and frail if they haven’t made their wishes known, what do you feel about that?I think as a medic, our starting point is we want to preserve life, we want to give everybody an opportunity.

She’s all stable and we’re about to leave, received.Her carer, Sharona, travels with her to the hospital.Just going to move you up the bed okay? It is quite common, when we go into care homes or residential homes that the information isn’t to hand.It even states on the form – CPR would be futile – and that’s been assessed by two doctors. His family comes to visit from time to time, carers come in four times a day and his neighbour, Joy pops in too.

So, perhaps not legally binding but it’s a fairly definite decision and if you change your mind you can have them removed, I believe.Yes, but you’d have to be tattooed on the front and the back and the side just in case you fell the wrong way and you weren’t exposing the tattoo, I guess.I’ve seen it on many, many occasions and I’ve actually seen it on front, back and sides as well.

Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London. That was the crucial document.There is no such thing in law as next of kin, it’s a common misconception.No one has the legal authority to speak for you, apart from someone you have appointed under a legal document called a Lasting Power of Attorney. The family lived in Gorton, a district of Manc

She is also an author and playwright and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism. Most people say they want to die at home but many don't achieve it, with half of us dying on an often busy hospital ward. It’s bizarrely antiquated. Joan Bakewell, a Baroness, is an 86-year-old journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer.

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I always want to respect people’s wishes and I want to do what people – I don’t know that individual, so quite often when I’m sent on a job I might just an 85-year-old collapse, then I’m suddenly thrust into someone’s life and if those decisions haven’t been made I’m going to start resuscitating, I’m happy to start resuscitating but I don’t want to do something somebody doesn’t want me to do.Over the years these Do Not Resuscitate forms have caused confusion for patients and even for some medical stuff, as Susan discovered at her peril when her elderly mother, Eileen, collapsed in the spring of 2017.Eileen was living at home with carers visiting four times a day and Susan taking her out each week. And perhaps it’s fanciful to say this but I think she was ready to go.Paramedics confirmed that Mel had no pulse. So, you rarely go for a period of resuscitation and then get up and have a chat.

So, first, that Do Not Resuscitate form we heard Ed mention.Robert Cole is a Consultant Paramedic with the West Midlands Ambulance Service. Whilst I have capacity, I can refuse. She may not be aware of what’s going on right now and obviously we’re going to give her the best care we can and then refer her on to further care at the hospital.Can I just take your blood pressure?

Joan Bakewell is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

But what people forget is all those variables that do affect survival. Gary.I think people have got to take a more pragmatic approach and carrying some kind of donor style card, to say that they’ve made end of life decisions, would be a sensible interim solution.

They could have called a doctor. The common types of scenarios are having some kind of brain injury because you’re in a road traffic accident or have a stroke and you wouldn’t want to be kept alive in circumstances like that. She's in her eighties, many of her friends have died and older relatives went long ago. Available now Available now

I’m a lawyer, Joan, so I’m going to say that people should have the legal documents in place.Think about it from my world.

Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss one of our greatest fears - pain. Yes, it’s okay to talk about the cost of death, it can be very expensive and we shouldn’t be ashamed, this isn’t an occasion for flaunting wealth, other values matter more than money. Joan Bakewell Death Fact Check. But the other person will more than likely be actually questioning the relatives, trying to understand – do they have a DNA CPR or a Do Not Resuscitate form, as we call them.