Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs. This book provides an authoritative source for the many people involved in caring for dying children.

This volume demonstrates how hospice care leads to improved quality of life for patients with terminal dementia and their families.

The third edition of The Hospice Companion features a thoroughly current guide to clinical processes and symptom management, providing hospice professionals with a concise summary of changes that have influenced clinical practice over the ...

For people in hospice, as well as their friends and families, this is an indispensable and trustworthy source of comfort and spiritual healing.

As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers.

This is the first book to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, incorporating leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care.

Drawing on the expertise of The National Hospice Organization--the umbrella organization for the ever-increasing number of hospice programs nationwide--this definitive guidebook outlines the many different choices for care and help ...

On my RN journey, I was encouraged and uplifted by the light evidenced in my various encounters with patients, families, and the support of my Hospice team members.

This book shows you the complex issues arising from work with patients of a different culture and encourages research in hospices which support culturally innovative programs.