Terminal Care category: 140 books
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH
A Practical Guide to Talking about End-of-Life Care and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Conversations About Death is the result Sally Cant’s twenty years in the death and dying industry. It contains a wealth of information that will make you feel more relaxed, open and comforted by talking about death and dying. Conversations About Death is a much needed tool: to assist in those...
Spirituality and Coping with Loss
End of Life Healthcare Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses’ experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations. Key findings indicate...
Caring for the Dying
The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas...
Parting
A Handbook for Spiritual Care Near the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take--the journey of a loved one toward the end of life. For those who choose to serve as close companions of terminally ill relatives or friends, Parting offers the collective wisdom of people from many cultures and faith...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage...
by Bonnie Lendrum
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell family comes to terms with the father’s diagnosis of cancer. The diagnosis...
Parents and Bereavement
A Personal and Professional Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Grief is a very individual experience and it can impact all aspects of a person's life. Parents and Bereavement: A Personal and Professional Exploration of Grief brings together latest research and practice from the pioneering children and young adults' hospice - Helen and Douglas House, alongside...
Nursing Education in Thanatology
A Curriculum Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal teaching of thanatology in schools for health care professionals is generally overlooked and ill-defined, many students...
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable....
Last Rights
Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
"This country is fairly crowded with doctors, families, and patients—all possessed of good intentions—failing to achieve the simple goal of allowing people to die with dignity and grace."
In the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly and brutally: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in...
Hospice: a labor of love
A Labor of Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Sharing stories of real people they have encountered as professional hospice caregivers, the authors explore both the practical and philosophical aspects of the hospice movement. Straightforward and nontechnical in approach, Hospice, A Labor of Love offers help and inspiration to hospice volunteers, pastoral counselors, and the families of those who are receiving hospice care.
YOU'RE NOT DEAD 'TIL I SAY YOU'RE DEAD
A Nurse's Reflections on Death, Dying, and the Near-Death Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Every encounter with death reminds us of our own ultimate fate; what each of us must one day confront and endure. Our experiences with the dying shape who we are and how we will live. Framed by Victor’s own near-death experience, You’re Not Dead ‘til I Say You’re Dead explores the process...
Take My Hand
The Caregiver’s Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Take My Hand is a welcome, practical guide for the emotional journey of caregiving.
The caregiver’s twisting and emotional journey is often bittersweet, combining feelings of exhaustion, reflection, love, frustration, delight, denial, connection, and loneliness. Just as they have taken on...
Medical Futility
A Cross-National Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application. There are few books on the subject, and those in existence mostly focus on the situation in the United States. This title, however, provides extensive international perspectives on medical futility.
This...