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Geripal Blog: Q&A with Jeff Gordon – Author of “A Death Prolonged”

Description:  Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels of suffering. Today’s high-tech medical care can sustain technical life – the beating heart – but utterly fails to restore real quality of life for many. The result: Death Prolonged. This is the introduction

Palliative Care Perspectives

Synopsis:  This book provides excellent perspective on end-of-life care and the purpose and quality one should look for in palliative care.  Highlights include detailed descriptions and information regarding symptoms and medication treatment plans.   Source:  Book Vol/Page/Date:  2003 Resource Type:  Book Author/Source:  James L. Hallenbeck, M.D. keywords:  Palliative care, book, symptoms, medication plans, pharmacology, pain,

THE LAST GIFTS: Creative Ways to be with the Dying

Synopsis:  Review:  This is a remarkable book written by an insightful occupational therapist who works in palliative care in New Mexico.  Here are the stories of seventeen patients, filled with compassion and caring and Jillian Brasch’s practical strategies and insights.  Anyone who works in palliative care will enjoy reading these stories and they will improve

PALLIATIVE CARE FOR CARE HOMES: A Practical Handbook

Synopsis:  Review:  As the populations in our societies age, there will be more and more individuals in care homes who have life-threatening conditions and are deserving of palliative care.  The flow of the principles and practices of palliative care into the nursing home community is entirely logical, but it is a big task when many

PAIN MANAGEMENT: Enhancing Your Life to the Fullest

Synopsis: Review:  Here is a book for patients with pain and for parents with children who have pain, written by someone who has dealt with pain for more than 40 years.  Trained as a teacher of children with special needs, Renee Goossens suffered horrendous injuries in a car accident when she was 21, which left

Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life

Synopsis:  This guide introduces Jewish beliefs and practices around illness, death and loss and provides practical suggestions for responding to the sometimes complicated situations where the clinical, religious and cultural are entwined. Healthcare professionals, chaplains, social workers, funeral directors, family caregivers and others caring for Jewish patients and families through illness, death and bereavement will

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Synopsis:  Often in times of serious illness and disease one turns to a deeper level of spirituality-- something greater than the problems and challenges that have been brought about.  The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is a wonderful resource and read for anyone who is trying to put living and dying in greater perspective.

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