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Handbook for Mortals

Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

By: Joanne Lynn MD,Janice Lynch Schuster,Joan Harrold MD

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Handbook for Mortals

Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

By: Joanne Lynn MD,Janice Lynch Schuster,Joan Harrold MD

Modern medical technology has changed not only the way we live but also the way we die. Until two generations ago, people usually died suddenly, after an accident or serious illness. Now, most of us will live with chronic conditions, and our dying will usually take longer, require more care, and demand more planning than ever before. 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 their lives a time of growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Written by Dr. Joanne Lynn and a team of experts, this book provides equal measures of practical information and wise counsel. Readers will learn what decisions they will need to face, what choices are available to them, where to look for help, how to ease pain and other symptoms, what to expect with specific diseases, how the health-care system operates, and how the entire experience affects dying persons, their families, and their friends. Such practical information is indispensable. But equally important are the personal stories included here of how people have come to terms with serious illness and dying, how they have faced their fears and made their choices. These give us moving firsthand insights into a profoundly important process, one that is often kept hidden in our culture. From down-to-earth advice on how to talk to your doctor to inspiring quotes from such writers as Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Jane Kenyon, and others, Handbook for Mortals addresses the needs of both the body and the spirit in our final years.

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Oxford University Press

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019983072X

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A Good Dying

Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life

By: Joan K. Harrold,Joanne Lynn

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A Good Dying

Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life

By: Joan K. Harrold,Joanne Lynn

A Good Dying: Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life examines the critical issues of improving the quality of health care for end-of-life patients. You'll gain valuable suggestions and ideas for creating and maintaining policies that pertain to individuals with various diagnoses, family structures, and personal needs. A Good Dying provides methods and examples that will help managers of health care focus on the needs of patients and make their last days as comfortable as possible. Emphasizing the need for further education of health care professionals and the need for additional research, A Good Dying offers possible solutions to the many barriers of improving conditions for the dying. You will be able to directly apply the information in this book to fulfill and understand the needs of dying patients. Specific topics covered include: -- portraying death and dying through art and using examples that show how death can be perceived as either noble or dehumanizing -- emphasizingthe benefits and conditions of life in hospice care -- educating physicians on the topics of pain management and making patients aware of pain relief treatments -- examining challenges to pain management -- evaluating the adequacy and completeness of individual health care -- measuring quality of life at the end of life by examining the physical and emotional pain of the patient, financial and emotional effects on the patient's family, provider continuity, and advanced care planning With contributions from physicians, patients, families, nurses, chaplains, and insurers, the chapters in A Good Dying offer you several different perspectives on strategies and policies needed toenhance the quality of life for the dying. You'll receive innovative ideas, program models, and strategies for evaluating policies designed to help patients, enabling you to offer better patient care. Complete with current data an

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Psychology Press

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A Good Dying

Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life

By: Joan K. Harrold,Joanne Lynn

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Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life

By: Joan K. Harrold,Joanne Lynn

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Handbook for Mortals

Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

By: Joanne Lynn MD,Janice Lynch Schuster,Joan Harrold MD

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Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

By: Joanne Lynn MD,Janice Lynch Schuster,Joan Harrold MD

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