Title:
Dying at home : a family guide for caregiving
Author:
Added Author:
Edition:
Third edition.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781421447728
9781421447735
Abstract:
Many people seek the comfort and dignity of dying at home. Advances in pharmacology and hospice care allow the dying to remain at home relatively free of pain and symptoms, but navigating professional services, insurance coverage, and family dynamics often compounds the complexity of this process. Extensively updated and revised, this third edition of Andrea Sankar's Dying at Home: A Family Guide for Caregiving provides essential information that caregivers and dying persons need to navigate this journey."This will be the third edition of this title, heavily updated from the 1999 second edition"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: home death: a return to tradition -- Taking the patient home to die -- Strangers in the home: the use of formal support -- Caregiving -- Social support -- The well-being of the caregiver -- Planning for death and remembrance -- Challenging situations: slowing or hastening death? -- Demystifying death -- Conclusion: living while dying -- Appendix A. Tasks and challenges of caregiving -- Appendix B. Resources -- Appendix C. Legal issues -- Appendix D. Next-step planning after death -- Appendix E. Medical aid in dying -- Appendix F. Pain at the end of life.
Language:
English
