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The End-of-Life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical Considerations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death
The EndofLife Advisor Personal Legal and Medical Considerations for a Peaceful Dignified Death Author:Susan Dolan, Audrey R Vizzard 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... more » 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.« less