A Hospice Guide Book: Hospice Care: A Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey Contributor(s): Smith, Curtis E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1462400094 ISBN-13: 9781462400096 Publisher: Inspiring Voices OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Reference - Medical | Terminal Care |
Dewey: 362.175 |
LCCN: 2011938731 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.64 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When you or a loved one are diagnosed with a terminal illness, you wonder what can be done to make life easier and more meaningful during the remaining time on earth. In A Hospice Guide Book, author Dr. Curtis E. Smith shows how the concept of hospice, which emphasizes the important provisions of comfort care through the end-of-life journey, can help terminal patients die a comfortable, peaceful death with dignity. A resource for families, patients, and health care providers, A Hospice Guide Book provides a thorough explanation of the hospice concept. It discusses A Hospice Guide Book presents a plethora of information about hospice, enabling those who could become hospice patients the opportunity to receive the benefit of expert comfort care; pain control management; symptom control; and emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support as they live with their terminal illness during the end-of-life journey and peacefully transition from this life to the next. " |