Demystifying Hospice - Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers

Hospice care helps make the end of life the best it can be, yet the experience can be both rewarding and stressful to those involved. Karen Clayton's stories address end-of-life choices, palliative care, mixed feelings about hospice, care for the caregivers, managing dramatic incidents and fear, social isolation, saying goodbye, and remembering.

List of contents

INTRODUCTION "Why have I written this Book?"
WHAT IS HOSPICE and HOW DOES IT WORK?
CHAPTER 1 FIRST VISITS BY THE SOCIAL WORKER
CHAPTER 2 HOSPICE CARE AT HOME
CHAPTER 3 CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER
CHAPTER 4 HOSPICE IN A PLACE YOU CALL HOME
CHAPTER 5 FINDING MEANING
CHAPTER 6 DRAMATIC CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 7 SOCIAL ISOLATION
CHAPTER 8 SAYING GOODBYE
CHAPTER 9 REMEMBERING
CHAPTER 10 MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT END-OF-LIFE CARE
CHAPTER 11 MAKING GOOD END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS
CHAPTER 12 REFLECTIONS

About the author

Karen is a sociologist and social worker who teaches in universities, presents to social service agencies, libraries, and bookstores, and works in hospitals, hospice, and for the American Cancer Society. She is the author of Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers and has presented to the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature about Easter celebrations in the Philippines.

Summary

Hospice care helps make the end of life the best it can be, yet the experience can be both rewarding and stressful to those involved. Karen Clayton’s stories address end-of-life choices, palliative care, mixed feelings about hospice, care for the caregivers, managing dramatic incidents and fear, social isolation, saying goodbye, and remembering.

Product details

• Authors: Karen J. Clayton
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781538147245
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4724-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, SELF-HELP / Aging, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Coping with death & bereavement, Home nursing & caring, Home nursing and caring, Accident & emergency medicine, Palliative Medicine, Nursing and ancillary services, Nursing & ancillary services, MEDICAL / Pain Management, Accident and emergency medicine, Coping with old age, Coping with / advice about ageing, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement