When Autumn Comes: Creating Compassionate Care for the Dying - Couverture souple

Bennett, Mary Jo

 
9780595316625: When Autumn Comes: Creating Compassionate Care for the Dying
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ISBN 10 : 059531662X ISBN 13 : 9780595316625
Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

When Autumn Comes will help you appreciate and respond to the important needs and delicate issues of our final passage through life. With wisdom and sensitivity, it gives practical keys for creating a holistic, comforting environment for those nearing the end of life so they can face death with peace and dignity.The author shares her intimate relationship with death in the loss of her lover and close friends and in her many years of experience at the bedside of the dying as a hospice volunteer. Her moving journey through grief, tears and companionship shows how we can find greater compassion and understanding in caring both for the dying and for ourselves in our time of loss."When Autumn Comes shows us that, with compassionate care, the end of life can be a time of personal growth and healing for the dying and their loved ones."Dannion Brinkley, chairman and founder of Compassion in Action and author Saved by the Light"Borrowing from her years of experience as a hospice volunteer, Mary Jo Bennett offers both practical advice and thoughtful reflection on the art of caring for the terminally ill. When Autumn Comes is invaluable to hospice volunteers and other caregivers, who are struggling with the nitty-gritty details of care and the deeper questions that often arise through such loving work."James Hallenbeck, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and author of Palliative Care Perspectives

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Présentation de l'éditeur

When Autumn Comes will help you appreciate and respond to the important needs and delicate issues of our final passage through life. With wisdom and sensitivity, it gives practical keys for creating a holistic, comforting environment for those nearing the end of life so they can face death with peace and dignity.The author shares her intimate relationship with death in the loss of her lover and close friends and in her many years of experience at the bedside of the dying as a hospice volunteer. Her moving journey through grief, tears and companionship shows how we can find greater compassion and understanding in caring both for the dying and for ourselves in our time of loss."When Autumn Comes shows us that, with compassionate care, the end of life can be a time of personal growth and healing for the dying and their loved ones."Dannion Brinkley, chairman and founder of Compassion in Action and author Saved by the Light"Borrowing from her years of experience as a hospice volunteer, Mary Jo Bennett offers both practical advice and thoughtful reflection on the art of caring for the terminally ill. When Autumn Comes is invaluable to hospice volunteers and other caregivers, who are struggling with the nitty-gritty details of care and the deeper questions that often arise through such loving work."James Hallenbeck, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and author of Palliative Care Perspectives

Biographie de l'auteur

Ms. Bennett received her hospice volunteer training in 1994 and is committed to promoting awareness and understanding about hospice and issues pertaining to death and dying. Raised in New York City, she graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University and now resides in Montana with her husband and two young children.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
059531662X
ISBN 13 
9780595316625
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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