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The End-of-Life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical Considerations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death

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The End-of-Life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical Considerations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death

By: Susan Dolan   Audrey R Vizzard  

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In this simple guide, you’ll find both practical step-by-step advice and compassionate, heartfelt guidance to dramatically improve the last days of life. Written by a mother-daughter team of hospice volunteers with experience in nursing, law, and psychology, The End-of-Life Advisor will show you the remarkable benefits of hospice care.

If you’re a healthcare or legal professional, you’ll discover the important ways you can advise your patients and clients. If you’re caring for a loved one, you’ll learn how you can help make their last days much more comfortable. If you’re planning for yourself, you’ll understand the decisions you need to make now – so you can find greater peace down the road.

You’ll get basic practical information on the ways a person can make their wishes known and maintain control over their end-of-life experience. This includes living wills, power of attorney for healthcare, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders, choosing hospice care, managing pain, increasing comfort ad making after-death plans.

Along the way you’ll find inspirational, emotional, and often humorous stories of positive end-of-life experiences – where pain and fear were replaced with comfort and peace.

Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Release Date: 2008-12-02

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