Review
Shwerwin B. Nuland Author of How We Die This is the book that explains...the ways in which all of us can benefit from the philosophies, the methods, and ultimately from the nurturing love that is the hospice's sustaining foundation.
Review
Shwerwin B. Nuland Author of How We Die This is the book that explains...the ways in which all of us can benefit from the philosophies, the methods, and ultimately from the nurturing love that is the hospice's sustaining foundation.
Review
Shwerwin B. Nuland Author of How We Die This is the book that explains...the ways in which all of us can benefit from the philosophies, the methods, and ultimately from the nurturing love that is the hospice's sustaining foundation.
Book Description
Hospice is the primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families. Warm, compassionate, and absolutely practical, this definitive resource from the National Hospice Organization will answer all your questions about hospice care and will show you how to make this comprehensive and flexible system work for you and your family.
The Hospice Choice illustrates the gamut of situations dying people and their families may face and suggests ways to manage them. Throughout is information on the broad range of services hospice can provide: Physicians and Nursing Services: to help with care specifically designed to keep the patient comfortable and at home Counseling Services: to help families and patients sort out their needs and responses Respite Services: to allow caregivers needed breaks Bereavement Counseling: to provide support for surviving family members and significant others for as much as a full year after loss The Hospice Choicealso addresses sensitive issues like methods of payment, issues of ethnicity, the special problems raised by sudden death, and the realities of caregiver exhaustion. It will give you the concrete information, support, and encouragement that will help you make wise, compassionate decisions for yourself and for your loved ones.
About the Author
Maria Lattanzi-Light is an internationally known educator and speaker and a pioneer in the field of hospice care.
Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death ANNOTATION
"...a compassionate and highly informative resource about preparing for death...addresses how to deal with sensitive financial issues and caregiver exhaustion."
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Hospice is the primary system to provide care for the terminally ill and their families. Warm, compassionate, and absolutely practical, this definitive resource from the National Hospice Organization will answer all your questions about hospice care and will show you how to make this comprehensive and flexible system work for you and your family.
The Hospice Choice illustrates the gamut of situations dying people and their families may face and suggests ways to manage them. Throughout is information on the broad range of services hospice can provide:
Physicians and Nursing Services: to help with care specifically designed to keep the patient comfortable and at home
Counseling Services: to help families and patients sort out their needs and responses
Respite Services: to allow caregivers needed breaks
Bereavement Counseling: to provide support for surviving family members and significant others for as much as a full year after loss
The Hospice Choicealso addresses sensitive issues like methods of payment, issues of ethnicity, the special problems raised by sudden death, and the realities of caregiver exhaustion. It will give you the concrete information, support, and encouragement that will help you make wise, compassionate decisions for yourself and for your loved ones.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
A hospice nurse and psychotherapist who cofounded the Boulder County Hospice in Colorado, Lattanzi-Lict writes with authority about the ways in which hospice care can help individuals and families deal with terminal illness. By alternating illustrative stories of an assortment of hospice patientselderly cancer patients, a young mother, a man with AIDS, a newbornwith specific factual data about what hospice care is and how it works, she and her colleagues Mahoney and Fisher (president and vice-president, respectively, of the National Hospice Organization) demonstrate how hospice teams provide care, usually at home, for the dying. Hospice teams of doctors, nurses, nursing aides, social workers, counselors and volunteers work closely with the family to manage pain and address the patient's myriad physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. To round out the picture, Lattanzi-Licht includes statements by volunteers and a nurse on the rewards of their work, brief questions and answers about hospice care and a resource list to guide consumers in finding and assessing a hospice program. This is a lucid and informative advocacy writing. (Mar.)
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