Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Joan Harrold

Handbook for Mortals

Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Handbook for Mortals is warmly addressed to all those who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of their lives a time of growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780199744565
• ISBN-10: 0199744564
• Artikelnr.: 32729105

Autorenporträt

Joanne Lynn, MD is one of the first hospice physicians in the US, one of the major contributors to research and policy on care for the last phase of life, and a former professor at Dartmouth and George Washington University . Joan Harrold, MD is the Medical Director/Vice President of Medical Services of Hospice of Lancaster County in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Janice Lynch Schuster is Senior Writer for Altarum Institute, where she specializes in writing about health care and public health. She has worked with Dr. Lynn since 1997 on efforts to improve end-of-life care.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Living with serious illness
Chapter 2: Enduring and changing
Chapter 3: Finding meaning
Chapter 4: Helping families make decisions and give care
Chapter 5: Getting the help you need
Chapter 6: Talking with your doctor
Chapter 7: Controlling pain
Chapter 8: Managing other symptoms
Chapter 9: Living with specific illnesses
Chapter 10: Planning ahead
Chapter 11: Deciding about medical interventions
Chapter 12: Hastening death
Chapter 13: Coping with events near death
Chapter 14: The dying of children
Chapter 15: Dying suddenly
Chapter 16: Enduring loss
Chapter 17: Resources