ExpressAgainThe Phrase Library has a category for comfort and the end of life: Comfort & End of Life. It holds short, first-person phrases to tap when speaking takes too much. It covers comfort (position, too hot or cold, a dry mouth, I'm thirsty, I don't want to eat), breathing (I can't breathe, I feel short of breath, the oxygen), pain and medicine with a pain scale from 0 to 10, wishes and decisions (I want to stay at home, I don't want to go to the hospital, please follow my wishes, please call my hospice nurse), family and presence, spiritual care (please pray with me, please call my pastor or chaplain, read to me, play my music), feelings, memories and legacy, rest, and yes, no and quick answers.
The hardest questions are there too, in plain words, because people ask them: Am I dying? How much time do I have? I'm ready. I'm not ready. Two groups use the names on My People: for each person added there, a tile says I want to see my daughter, Ann (under family and presence) and another says I want to record a message for my daughter, Ann (under memories and legacy).
Choose Hospice and Palliative in the guided setup and this category opens first in the Phrase Library. The Communicate page then shows a Comfort phrases section just under What you want to say, with four columns: comfort, pain, breathing and family (three at a time in calm mode). Every other mode can still open the category from the library.
The phrases are the patient's own words and questions, never medical advice. The app does not call the hospice nurse or change any medicine: it speaks the words out loud for the people in the room. The most urgent phrases carry an Urgent tag.