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Being Mortal : Illness Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$25.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care | Series: Wellcome Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Doorways into Dying: Innovative Teachings for End of Life by Ingrid Ross & Kay Ryan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
In Doorways into Dying: Innovative Teaching for End of Life, Ingrid Rose and Kay Ryan present techniques and tools for communicating with those in out-of-ordinary states of consciousness such as those found in dementia, coma or the dying experience. Methods are presented that are useful to medical staff ...Show more
Loss, Change and Bereavement in Palliative Care by Edited by Pam Firth, Gill Luff, David Oliviere
$70.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
How do professionals meet the needs of bereaved people? How do professionals undertake best practice with individuals, groups, families and communities? What are the implications for employing research to influence practice? This book provides a resource for working with a complex range of loss situati ...Show more
Resilience in Palliative Care: Achievement in Adversity by Barbara Munroe & Olivere
$120.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
The first book of its kind, Resilience and Palliative Care - Achievement in Adversity takes the increasing international literature on resilience and applies it to palliative and end-of-life care. The book offers an overview of all key aspects of palliative care, presented through a resilience perspect ...Show more
Comforting Touch in Dementia and at End of Life : Take My Hand by Barbara Goldschmidt
$45.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
Hand massage is a positive and meaningful way of reaching out and providing comfort to those who are elderly, ill or nearing the end of life, and it can be particularly effective for people with dementia who respond well to non-verbal interaction. This book teaches an easy 30 minute hand massage sequenc ...Show more
Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease by Ruth B. Purtilo
$107.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
Alzheimer disease afflicts more than twelve million people worldwide, and its incidence is increasing at a staggering rate. People with the disorder are living longer than have those in previous generations, and they require interventions for quality-of-life issues associated with palliative care. Howev ...Show more
Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Voluntary Service Managers by Edited by Rosalind Scott, Stephen Howlett
$80.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
The book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and i ...Show more
The Accidental Carer: A Practical Guide Through Uncertainty by Palliative Home Carers by Ros Capper
$25.00 NZD
Category: Cancer
THERE is no right or wrong way to care for someone given an end-of-life or uncertain diagnosis, but this common experience can be steeped in such mystery people simply don't know how to cope. After caring for her beloved husband Mike, pioneering Aucklander Ros Capper has taken her first-hand experience ...Show more
Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life by Institute of Medicine
$77.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening.Approaching Death refl ...Show more
The Soul Midwives' Handbook: The Holistic and Spiritual Care of the Dying by Felicity Warner
$42.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
Soul Midwives, a movement begun by Felicity Warner, has changed the face of modern holistic and spiritual palliative care in the UK and abroad. Soul Midwives are holistic and spiritual companions to the dying. They draw on traditional skills, now largely forgotten, applying them to our modern world to e ...Show more
Speaking of Dying: A practical guide to using counselling skills in palliative care by Louis Heyse-Moore
$55.00 NZD
Category: Palliative Care
Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people. Louis Heyse-Moore draws on his wealth of exp ...Show more
Modern Death - How Medicine Changed the End of Life by Haider Warraich
$50.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
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 an ...Show more
