The Hospice Handbook
A good overview of hospice care with advice on how to choose a provider.
Hospice Care For Children
A professional resource book for this special type of service.
At Home With Terminal Illness
A simple handbook for home hospice care.
Caregiving: Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul
By Douglas C. Smith. This is one of the best books we've found on ways to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying. Overall, the book is a remarkable achievement, with a perfect blend of "how to" material held together within an ethical framework that we endorse wholeheartedly. Published September, 1997.
Let Someone Hold You
Paul Morrissey, a Roman Catholic priest, shares a highly personal account of his work with the terminally ill as a member of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York City. From bombed-out slums to swank highrises, he and other members of his hospice team visit dying people of all faiths and cultures in the intimacy of their homes and families. Winner of the 1995 Christopher Award.
In The Light Of Dying
The personal journal of a hospice volunteer.
The Primer Of Palliative Care
By Porter Storey. A concise and inexpensive overview of hospice and palliative care issues suitable for a general audience. This widely-used booklet is published by the American Academy Of Hospice And Palliative Medicine, an international professional organization for physicians involved with care for those who are dying and their loved ones.
Forgoing Life-Sustaining Therapy
Sensible guidance on tough clinical issues such as how to stop a ventilator, the use of artificial nutrition and hydration, forgoing dialysis, and management of delirium in the final days of life.
New Themes In Palliative Care
David Clark, Jo Hockley, Sam Ahmedzai (s). A compilation of essays on key themes in palliative care, intended for a professional audience. The book has a multidisciplinary, international perspective. Sections cover policy, ethics, service developments, and clinical issues. Published September, 1997.
Topics In Palliative Care (Two Volumes)
Eduardo Bruera and Russell K. Portenoy, s. Each chapter of these medical reference texts covers a specialized aspect of palliative care for the terminally ill in an authoritative manner. These items should be part of any standard reference library for palliative medicine.
Nutritional Care Of The Terminally Ill
By Charlette R. Gallagher-Allred. A professional book for use by dieticians working in hospice and palliative care settings. This is an update to the author's 1989 reference work on the same topic. Published January, 1997.
By No Extraordinary Means: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water
Joanne M.D. Lynn (). Intended for a professional audience, this book examines the medical ethics associated with nutritional care of the terminally ill.
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