Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving
together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness. The narratives weave …

Palliative Care Perspectives is a guide to the art and science of palliative care that links real
stories of illness with practical advice to delineate clinical practice in a way that reflects the …

A Few Months to Live describes what dying is like from the perspectives of nine terminally ill
individuals and their caregivers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences that …

The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame Cicely
Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, Narrative and Stories in Health Care …

The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally
ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare …

Nursing Care at the End of Life: Palliative Care for Patients and Families explores the deep
issues of caring for the dying and suffering. The book is based on the Hospice Family …

Palliative care began with a focus on the care of the dying. Dr. Cicely Saunders first
articulated her ideas about modern hospice care in the late 1950s based on the careful …

Based on his extensive counseling work with the terminally ill, a bestselling author offers
unique support to anyone facing the dying process. This book integrates death into the …

Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has
become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie …

When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect
reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily …