At Home with Terminal Illness: A Family Guide to Hospice in the Home

by Michael Appleton and Todd Henschell

This guide is organized alphabetically and covers all topics of concern for the caregiver of a terminally ill patient being cared for at home. The book contains no medical jargon to confuse the lay... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132998432
• ISBN13: 9780132998437
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

at home with terminal illness

After the death of a friend or loved one many people comment how helpful a book of this kind would have been to assist in going through the process of dying.While not necessarily scientific it should be required as a sensitivity training for physicians where caring and not curing is mandatory for a successful closure

An easy-to-read book that's helpful in a time of crisis.

This book was obviously designed to be simple and easy to read. This helps, because dealing with complex medical terms at the same time you're coping with the death of a loved one is simply too much to ask.Although the book is slightly weighted towards helping nurses or hospice staff, it will be useful for just "plain folks" who are NOT doctors or nurses but want to know if their professional caregivers are doing the "right things."If you anticipate caring for a dying friend or relative at home, I would suggest getting this book and reading through it (it's very brief and right to the point) BEFORE the emotions and stress of this job reach critical mass. The information here can help anyone facing this reduce the stress, provide some confidence, maybe even shed light on how dying (and caring for a dying person) can be a growth process.It's not "New Age" or mystical, but it is full of useful, elegantly-explained methods of dealing with the things that happen as we die.