Staying in Charge Practical Plans for the End of Your Life

Name: Staying in Charge Practical Plans for the End of Your Life
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ISBN: 9780471274247

ISBN-10: 0471274240

ISBN-13: 9780471274247

Edition: 2004

Authors: Karen Orloff Kaplan, Christopher Lukas

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This handbook focuses on practical and spiritual concerns for those who are dying, so that they can maintain control and have their wishes heard at the end of their lives.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 8/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.20" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction


Why We Wrote This Book


Obstacles to Good Care


Thinking and Talking about Mortality


Palliative Care


The Facts about Hospice


The ABCs of Advance Directives


Choosing an Agent


Being an Agent


Matters of Mind and Spirit


Caregivers


Children and Serious Illness


Nursing Homes


When Crises Come


DNRs and Assisted Dying


Finances


Give Grief a Chance


Living with Dying


Suggested Reading


Resources


Acknowledgments


Index