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 J. Clayton is a social worker and sociologist. Her writing interests focus currently on demystifying hospice to encourage patients, caregivers and other family members, educators, and administrators to better understand the practical workings of hospice and to use it in a timelier manner. Clayton is an active member of the Oak Harbor Writers Group, and the American Association of University Woman, Island County, Washington. She taught sociology and cross-cultural communication at the University of Texas, Tarrant County Junior College, Southwestern Adventist University, and La Sierra University, where she was also the Education Curator for the Stahl Center Museum of Culture (Riverside, CA).

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