Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers
Description
Hospice care helps make the end of life the best it can be, yet the experience can be both rewarding and stressful to those involved. Karen Clayton's stories address end-of-life choices, palliative care, mixed feelings about hospice, care for the caregivers, managing dramatic incidents and fear, social isolation, saying goodbye, and remembering.
Praise for Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers
Whidbey author, social worker, and sociologist, Karen Clayton's book is listed as one of the "20 Best Hospice Care Books" by Book Authority which creates lists of the most recommended books on business, technology, and science. The book is in 719 libraries, several outside the US, according to WorldCat operated by OCLC (Online Community Library Center). Locally you can find it in the Anacortes, Burlington, Mt. Vernon libraries and the Sno-Isle Library System. Village Books and several other independent bookstores in the NW carry the book and it's available online.
"My purpose is to help folk--patients, family members, and medical personnel--understand the services provided by hospice and the value of seeking hospice care when the decision is made to do no more treatment for cure. About 50% of Medicare patients do use hospice; however, about 40% wait until the last 2-3 weeks when they could have this unique comfort care for 6 months!"
--Karen Clayton, social worker and sociologist