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FAMILY CARERS IN PALLIATIVE CARE: A Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals Oxford University Press
Review:  Providing care and support for the family of the patient is one of the basic, almost sacred, tenets of...
PAIN MANAGEMENT: Enhancing Your Life to the Fullest Anshan
Review:  Here is a book for patients with pain and for parents with children who have pain, written by someone who has...
PALLIATIVE CARE FOR CARE HOMES: A Practical Handbook Radcliffe Publishing
Review:  As the populations in our societies age, there will be more and more individuals in care homes who have life-...
THE LAST GIFTS: Creative Ways to be with the Dying Andrews McMeel Publishing
Review:  This is a remarkable book written by an insightful occupational therapist who works in palliative care in New...
When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
 "We are in need of medicine with a heart. . . . The endless physical, emotional, and financial burdens that a...
Geripal Blog: Q&A with Jeff Gordon - Author of "A Death Prolonged"
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels...
GeriPal Blog: Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness – A Book Review
On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our conversation quickly turned...
Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
This guide introduces Jewish beliefs and practices around illness, death and loss and provides practical suggestions for...
Palliative Care Perspectives Book
This book provides excellent perspective on end-of-life care and the purpose and quality one should look for in palliative...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Book
Often in times of serious illness and disease one turns to a deeper level of spirituality-- something greater than the...