Final Gifts

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Callanan, Maggie 저자(글)

Simon & Schuster · 2012년 02월 14일

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Maggie Callanan has specialized in the care of the dying since 1981. She lectures widely to lay and professional audiences on death and dying, bereavement, and hospice care. Maggie is also the author of Final Journeys. She lives on the New England coast.Patricia Kelley has worked in hospice care since 1978. She formerly held positions as Clinical Director of Montgomery Hospice in Maryland and as Director of Health Systems Leadership at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. She now works as a national and international consultant providing education and training on issues relating to hospice and palliative care. Patricia is also the author of Companion to Grief: Finding Consolation When Someone You Love Has Died.
In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories, we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the giftsof wisdom, faith, and lovethat the dying leave for the living to share.Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
In this moving and compassionate classic--now updated with new material from the authors--hospice nurses Callanan and Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than 20 years' experience tending the terminally ill.
In this moving and compassionate classicnow updated with new material from the authorshospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years' experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the giftsof wisdom, faith, and lovethat the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
In this moving and compassionate classicnow updated with new material from the authorshospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years' experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the giftsof wisdom, faith, and lovethat the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Giftsshows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
In this moving and compassionate classicnow updated with new material from the authorshospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years??experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the giftsof wisdom, faith, and lovethat the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the giftsof wisdom, faith, and lovethat the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
Written by two hospice nurses, Final Gifts is a classic and comforting guide to how best to assist the dying through the process of death.
"Beautifully written, illuminating and reassuring??Final Gifts is truly a gift to us all." Judy Tatelbaum, author of The Courage to Grieve
"Beautifully written, illuminating and reassuring??Final Giftsis truly a gift to us all." Judy Tatelbaum, author of The Courage to Grieve
"These richly told stories enable us to respond to the dying in new and authentic ways." Ira R. Byock, M.D., author of Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life
"Treasureclear, authentic, responsible, and profoundly moving." Sandol Stoddard, author of The Hospice Movement

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저자(글) Callanan, Maggie

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ISBN	9781451667257 ( 1451667256 )
발행(출시)일자	2012년 02월 14일
쪽수	224쪽
크기	140 * 211 * 18 mm / 181 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어