The Best Terminal Care Books 2025

1. To Comfort Always: A Nurse's Guide to End-of-Life Care, Used [Paperback]

Caring for patients at the end of lifes journey is challenging, but rewarding. To Comfort Always: A Nurses Guide to End-of-Life Care prepares nurses to care for dying patients and their families by providing a primer that is both practical and insightful. From emotional needs such as relief of suffering to physical needs such as relief of pain, To Comfort Always supplies nurses what they need to know to deliver holistic, effective care. Linda Norlander brings her expertise in end-of-life care to this book that will serve as a valuable resource for nurses committed to comforting patients and families at one of lifes most moving passages.

To Comfort Always : A Nurse's Guide to End-Of-Life Care, Used [Paperback]

2. Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. "Medical technology has helped mankind conquer tuberculosis, polio, and countless other once certain-death diseases. It has given us hope against cancer and AIDS, allowed heart and brain surgeries that have saved untold numbers of lives, and delivered us from the pain and crippling legacy of injury. Medical technology, it seems, is a never-ending string of miracles. But it is also a double-edged sword. More often than not, death today happens because of a decision to stop doing something, or to not do it at all. As the tragic life and death of Terri Schiavo so poignantly illustrated, universal definitions of life, death, nature, and many other concepts are elusive at best. "Unplugged" addresses the fundamental questions of the right-to-die debate, and discusses how the medical advances that bring so much hope and healing have also helped to create today's dilemma. This compelling book explores recent high-profile cases, including that of Mrs. Schiavo, and illuminates the complex legal, ethical, medical, and deeply personal issues of a debate that ultimately affects us all. Compassionate and beautifully written, the book helps readers understand the implications of current laws and proposed legislation, various medical options (including hospice), and the typical end-of-life decisions we all must face in order to make informed decisions for ourselves and our loved ones."

Unplugged : Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America, Used [Hardcover]

3. Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland and Atul Gawande . Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself. The most basic aspects of dying--the whys, wheres, whens, and hows --are almost nothing like what they were mere decades ago. Beyond its ecology, epidemiology, and economics, the very ethos of death has changed. Modern Death, Dr. Warraich's debut book, will explore the rituals and language of dying that have developed in the last century, and how modern technology has not only changed the hows, whens, and wheres of death, but the what of death. Delving into the vast body of research on the evolving nature of death, Modern Death will provide readers with an enriched understanding of how death differs from the past, what our ancestors got right, and how trends and events have transformed this most final of human experiences.

Modern Death : How Medicine Changed the End of Life, Used [Hardcover]

4. Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Assistants [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This popular text provides complete coverage of the knowledge and skills nursing assistants need to work in a long-term care facility. The concise, readable, highly visual format appeals to learners of all levels. The clear, logical presentation of procedures, with hundreds of large, full-color photos and drawings, makes it easy for students to learn and understand. This new edition addresses the expanding role of the nursing assistant in long-term care, providing additional coverage of assisted living, restraint alternatives, transfers, wound care, elderly abuse, and restorative nursing. Covers all of the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant in long-term care. An attractive, full-color design engages students' interest. Over 100 procedures stressing the quality of life are divided into pre-, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning. Hundreds of full-color photos and drawings add visual appeal and show students how to perform important tasks. What You Will Learn and Key Terms with definitions help students focus on essential information and better understand chapter content. Caring About Culture boxes provide insight and awareness about the practices of various cultures. NNAAPT Highlighted skills alert students to procedures that are part of the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAPT) Residents with Dementia boxes detail special care considerations for residents with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Quality of Life boxes present actions and considerations that nursing assistants can use to provide care according to the OBRA mandate to enhance/protect residents' rights and improve their overall well-being. OBRA content is highlighted throughout to reinforce the importance of adhering to these federal standards. Focus on Rehabilitation and Subacute Care boxes provide students with information and insights to effectively care for these special residents. Chapter Review Questions help students evaluate learning. UNIQUE! Mosby's Nursing Assistant CD-ROM, bound in the text, includes 25 procedures with corresponding video clips & exercises, an audio glossary, and Body Spectrum - an electronic anatomy coloring book. Lower reading level (6.7) makes comprehension easy for all levels of learners. Delegation Guidelines detail what the student needs to know and understand before accepting delegated tasks. Charting examples demonstrate correct recording methods. Safety Alerts highlight actions that ensure the safety of both residents and staff. New chapter on Restraint Alternatives and Safe Restraint Use. New chapter on Assisted Living discusses caring for residents in these settings.

Mosby's Textbook for Long-Term Care Assistants, Used [Paperback]

5. The Crisis of Us Hospice Care: Family and Freedom at the End of Life [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Exploring the failure of hospice in America to care for patients and families at the end of life. Hospice is the dominant form of end-of-life care in the United States. But while the US hospice system provides many forms of treatment that are beneficial to dying people and their families, it does not encompass what is commonly referred to as long-term care, which includes help with the activities of daily living: feeding, bathing, general safety, and routine hygienic maintenance. Frequently, such care is carried out by an informal network of unpaid caregivers, such as the person's family or loved ones, who are often ill-prepared to offer this type of support. In The Crisis of US Hospice Care , Harold Braswell argues that the stress of providing long-term care typically overwhelms family members and that overdependence on familial caregiving constitutes a crisis of US hospice care that limits the freedom of dying people. Arguing for the need to focus on the time just before death, Braswell examines how the relationship of hospice to familial caregiving evolved. He traces the history of hospice over the past fifty years and describes the choice that people dying with inadequate familial support face between a neglectful home environment and an impersonal nursing home. A nuanced look at the personal and political dimensions that shape long-term, end-of-life care, this historical and ethnographic study demonstrates that the crisis in US hospice care can be alleviated only by establishing the centrality of hospice to American freedom. Providing a model for the transformative work that is required going forward, The Crisis of US Hospice Care illustrates the potential of hospice for facilitating a new way of living our last days and for having the best death possible.

The Crisis of Us Hospice Care: Family and Freedom at the End of Life, Used [Hardcover]

6. New meanings of death [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. New meanings of death by Herman Feifel

New meanings of death, Used [Hardcover]

7. Hospice Care for Children, Used [Hardcover]

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families-- require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs. This book, the first edition of which won the 1993 Pediatric Nursing Book of the Year Award, provides an authoritative source for the many people involved in caring for dying children. It draws together contributions from leading authorities in a comprehensive, fully up-to-date resource, with an emphasis on practical topics that can be put to immediate use. The book covers the entire range of issues related to the hospice environment and is intended for all those who participate in the hospice-care process: physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, clergy, family therapists, parents, and community service volunteers.

Hospice Care for Children, Used [Hardcover]

8. Death & the caring community: Ministering to the terminally ill, Used [Hardcover]

Death & the caring community: Ministering to the terminally ill by Paul Johnson; Larry Richards

Death & the caring community: Ministering to the terminally ill, Used [Hardcover]

9. Hospice Core Curriculum [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Hospice Core Curriculum by AAHPM Staff

Hospice Core Curriculum [Paperback - Used]

10. A Hospice handbook: A new way to care for the dying, Used [Unknown Binding]

A Hospice handbook: A new way to care for the dying by Michael Pollock Hamilton; Helen F. Reid

A Hospice handbook: A new way to care for the dying, Used [Unknown Binding]