A Hospice Guide Book

Hospice Care: A Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey

By: Curtis E. Smith

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Paperback | 30 December 2011

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When you or a loved one are diagnosed with a terminal illness, you wonder what can be done to make life easier and more meaningful during the remaining time on earth. In A Hospice Guide Book, author Dr. Curtis E. Smith shows how the concept of hospice, which emphasizes the important provisions of comfort care through the end-of-life journey, can help terminal patients die a comfortable, peaceful death with dignity.

A resource for families, patients, and health care providers, A Hospice Guide Book provides a thorough explanation of the hospice concept. It discusses

â¢ the definition of hospice care and its origins;
â¢ hospice fallacies, myths, and facts;
â¢ alternative care modalities;
â¢ the hospice team and its responsibilities;
â¢ levels of care and treatment;
â¢ pain and pain management;
â¢ hospice residences;
â¢ end of life care.

A Hospice Guide Book presents a plethora of information about hospice, enabling those who could become hospice patients the opportunity to receive the benefit of expert comfort care; pain control management; symptom control; and emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support as they live with their terminal illness during the end-of-life journey and peacefully transition from this life to the next.

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