Joanne Lynn, Joan Harrold, The Center to Improve Care of the Dying

Handbook for Mortals (eBook, PDF)

Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

• Format: PDF

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 our lives a time for growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Written by Drs. Joanne Lynn and Joan Harrold and a variety of experts from nursing, hospice, counseling, and the arts, this book provides equal measures of practical information and gentle insight. Readers will learn what decisions they will need to face, where to look for help, how to ease pain and other symptoms, what to expect with specific diseases, and how the health-care system operates. Equally important to this practical information are the personal stories included here of how people have come to terms with dying, faced their fears, and made important choices. From down-to-earth advice on how to talk to your doctor to inspiring quotes from such writers as W. H. Auden, Jane Kenyon, and others, Handbook for Mortals encompasses the needs of both the body and the spirit in our final years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199760886
• Artikelnr.: 54555199

Autorenporträt

Joanne Lynn, M.D., is Director of the RAND Center to Improve Care of the Dying and President of Americans for Better Care of the Dying. Joan Harrold, M.D., is Medical Director of the Hospice of Lancaster County.

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