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Synopsis:  This guide introduces Jewish beliefs and practices around illness, death and loss and provides practical suggestions for responding to the sometimes complicated situations where the clinical, religious and cultural are entwined. Healthcare professionals, chaplains, social workers, funeral directors, family caregivers and others caring for Jewish patients and families through illness, death and bereavement will

Synopsis: Review:  Here is a book for patients with pain and for parents with children who have pain, written by someone who has dealt with pain for more than 40 years.  Trained as a teacher of children with special needs, Renee Goossens suffered horrendous injuries in a car accident when she was 21, which left

Synopsis:  Review:  Providing care and support for the family of the patient is one of the basic, almost sacred, tenets of palliative care.  But how well are we doing?  In this book Peter Hudson and Sheila Payne have assembled a distinguished cast of contributors, which is both multidisciplinary and international, to critically assess the evidence. 

Synopsis:  Review:  As the populations in our societies age, there will be more and more individuals in care homes who have life-threatening conditions and are deserving of palliative care.  The flow of the principles and practices of palliative care into the nursing home community is entirely logical, but it is a big task when many

Synopsis:  Review:  This is a remarkable book written by an insightful occupational therapist who works in palliative care in New Mexico.  Here are the stories of seventeen patients, filled with compassion and caring and Jillian Brasch’s practical strategies and insights.  Anyone who works in palliative care will enjoy reading these stories and they will improve

Synopsis:   "We are in need of medicine with a heart. . . . The endless physical, emotional, and financial burdens that a family carries when their child dies . . . makes you totally incapable of dealing with incompetence and insensitivity."   The full text of this book is free online via the link below. 

Synopsis:  This book provides excellent perspective on end-of-life care and the purpose and quality one should look for in palliative care.  Highlights include detailed descriptions and information regarding symptoms and medication treatment plans.   Source:  Book Vol/Page/Date:  2003 Resource Type:  Book Author/Source:  James L. Hallenbeck, M.D. keywords:  Palliative care, book, symptoms, medication plans, pharmacology, pain,