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Author : A. Stuart Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792325282
Finally, one comprehensive and authoritative source of practical information for seniors on living well as they face the end of life.
Author : Judy Stevens-Long Phd,Dohrea Bardell Phd
Publisher : Fielding University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986393061
Attitudes to death and dying are changing in the United States. Today, we are living longer, yet with the acute awareness that what we do now will affect our remaining time. Prompted by a big push from baby boomers, our society is moving towards a culture that provides a greater array of positive choices in the final phase of our lives. This should inspire all of us to find new ways to create joy and comfort until the very last moment of life. Written by Social Sciences Professor Dr. Judy Stevens-Long, author of the bestselling book Adult Life, with Dr. Dohrea Bardell, a Fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation, this book contains all the information you need to ensure that the last years of your life, or the life of someone you love, will be as satisfying, comfortable, and as productive as possible.
Author : Katy Butler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781501135323
This “comforting…thoughtful” (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a “roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). “A common sense path to define what a ‘good’ death looks like” (USA TODAY), The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with them, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. This handbook of preparations—practical, communal, physical, and spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months. Based on Butler’s experience caring for aging parents, and hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated our fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths, The Art of Dying Well also draws on the expertise of national leaders in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, and hospice. This “empowering guide clearly outlines the steps necessary to prepare for a beautiful death without fear” (Shelf Awareness).
Author : Katy Butler
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1501135317
A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations—practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months. Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with her, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with meaning and even joy is based on Butler’s own experience caring for aging parents, as well as hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated a fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths. It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, hospice, and other medical specialties. Inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying, The Art of Dying Well is the definitive update for our modern age, and illuminates the path to a better end of life.
Author : Ira Byock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1573226572
Explores the important emotional work accomplished in the final months of life and offers advice on dealing with doctors, talking with friends and relatives, and mananging end-of-life care
Author : M. Dianne Godkin
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780888644947
Clinical ethicist Dianne Godkin offers deeper understanding of the experience of preparing for end-of-life (advance directive).
Author : Helen Kewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Aging
ISBN : 1910919411
Author : A. Stuart Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792313624
Author : Alan Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1478778792
When faced with limited life expectancy how do you plan your time to best advantage? The news of limited life expectancy is always a surprise, even when we think we know it. What do you need to know to plan the last months of life to manage your time as best you can? How do you share this information with loved ones, how do you engage them and how can you be sure your wishes are followed when you can no longer supervise them? This is a guide book, it covers issues starting at understanding the options to explaining them and managing your time and legacy.
Author : Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0807869236
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making. Over the past decade, Hadler has established himself as a leading voice among those who approach the menu of health-care choices with informed skepticism. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he argues; if it cannot be shown that a particular treatment will benefit the patient, one should proceed with caution. In Rethinking Aging, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective on the medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical choices in the last decades of life. The challenges of aging and dying, he eloquently assures us, can be faced with sophistication, confidence, and grace.
Author : His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1451603819
"Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience in life when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm (Shakespeare's "little death"). The stages are described so vividly that we can imagine the process of traveling deeper into the mind, on the ultimate journey of transformation. In this way, His Holiness shows us how to prepare for that time and, in doing so, how to enrich our time on earth, die without fear or upset, and influence the stage between this life and the next so that we may gain the best possible incarnation. As always, the ultimate goal is to advance along the path to enlightenment. Advice on Dying is an essential tool for attaining that eternal bliss.
Author : Paula Wrenn,Jo Gustely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692945083
Dying well, comfortably and peacefully, is one of the most important, most desired of personal choices. At the same time it is one of the most misunderstood topics. Dying Well with Hospice shines light on this difficult subject by providing options for making end of life peaceful, dignified, and demystifies the dying processed.
Author : Katy Butler
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781501135477
This “comforting…thoughtful” (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a “roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). “A common sense path to define what a ‘good’ death looks like” (USA TODAY), The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with them, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. This handbook of preparations—practical, communal, physical, and spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months. Based on Butler’s experience caring for aging parents, and hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated our fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths, The Art of Dying Well also draws on the expertise of national leaders in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, and hospice. This “empowering guide clearly outlines the steps necessary to prepare for a beautiful death without fear” (Shelf Awareness).
Author : Mary Brooksbank,Elizabeth Keam,W. P. Hallahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Home nursing
ISBN : 098039340X
"A guide for carers caring for a person who has a life limiting illness at home"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Roger Landry
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781626340404
Over a decade ago, a landmark ten-year study by the MacArthur Foundation shattered the stereotypes of aging as a process of slow, genetically determined decline. Researchers found that that 70 percent of physical aging, and about 50 percent of mental aging, is determined by lifestyle, the choices we make every day. That means that if we optimize our lifestyles, we can live longer and “die shorter”—compress the decline period into the very end of a fulfilling, active old age. Dr. Roger Landry and his colleagues have spent years bringing the MacArthur Study’s findings to life with a program called Masterpiece Living. In Live Long, Die Short, Landry shares the incredible story of that program and lays out a path for anyone, at any point in life, who wants to achieve authentic health and empower themselves to age in a better way. Writing in a friendly, conversational tone, Dr. Landry encourages you to take a “Lifestyle Inventory” to assess where your health stands now and then leads you through his “Ten Tips,” for successful aging, each of which is backed by the latest research, real-life stories, and the insights Landry—a former Air Force surgeon and current preventive medicine physician—has gained in his years of experience. The result is a guide that will reshape your conception of what it means to grow old and equip you with the tools you need to lead a long, healthy, happy life.