Friday 29 January 2016

List Of Top Books On Hospice Care Awareness

By Stephanie Martin


Terminally ill patients require special kind of support and attention. This is to ensure that their final moments are as comfortable and peaceful as possible. The experiences of nurses in this environment have been shared in best seller books on hospice care awareness. Here is a list of the titles that top this category.

After working with terminally ailing patients for decades, Patricia Kelley and Callanan Maggie shared their experiences in a book entitled Final Gifts. This title is a holistic approach to handling of patients in hospices and at their dying moments. It provides tips on their communication methods and how to decode that in order to identify and fulfill their needs. It also sensitizes terminally ill patient handlers on the need to provide a perfect environment that enables smooth transition.

The experiences shared are very intimate and personal. In their narration the sick have an extraordinary way of communicating. They have very particular needs that they would like fulfilled. The transition is a journey whose departure is choreographed. These patients have an elaborate vision of this journey including a welcoming party on the other side. In fact, they never leave before their time. It is only by understanding such a scenario that caregivers can provide the necessary support.

Maggie and Patricia share very practical experiences after decades working with terminally ill patients. Their guide targets friends, relatives and handlers of patients suffering from terminal illnesses. In their words, these persons have incredible gifts of faith, love and wisdom that they wish to leave behind. This book will enable you to prepare the patient both spiritually and emotionally and to enable you receive these rare gifts.

Dr. Curtis is a renowned psychologist who has been studying the dying moments. His book is entitled A Hospice Guide Book. It explores the need and ways of ensuring that persons diagnosed of terminal illnesses continue living their lives to the fullest up to the last minute. Part of provision of proper attention is ensuring that the news do not make the life of this person meaningless. This is the responsibility of caregivers, friends and relatives.

Dr. Curtis is emphatic on provision of a dignified, peaceful and comfortable environment. He provides clarity on how proper hospices should look like. He tackles the issue from a philosophical and historical perspective. The book helps a reader to understand fallacies, myths and facts that surround hospice care.

In A Hospice Guide Book, Dr. Curtis tackles alternative modalities of providing care, pain management and different levels of attention demanded by the patients. The book is also captures a chapter on what the physical environment in hospices means to patients. This book pays attention to patient handling at the tail end of life. This title will enable anyone to provide a perfect and peaceful transition to terminally ailing patients.

Authors have shared insights and experiences that enable as smooth and peaceful transition for terminally ill patients. Through these insights, terminally ill persons find psychological, emotional and spiritual support at the crucial moment in their lives. The books are reasonably priced and available over the internet.




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