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Preparing for a Better End : Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones /
A vital roadmap to planning your own end-of-life care. While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: why not the best of both worlds? -- My dog got better care than my mother -- Taking charge: advance directives and choosing the care you want -- A different choice: do everything -- Cure vs. healing: palliative care and hospice -- Whom do you trust? Choosing your health care agent -- It's not just about old people: when tragedy strikes the young -- No easy answers: dementia, the system, and getting it right -- Assisted suicide, assisted dying, and VSED -- Pain, anxiety, and drugs, drugs, drugs -- What's stopping us -- Gifts of life: organ donation, funerals, and cemeteries -- No job is complete until the paperwork is done: making it legal -- Help, we need somebody: providing support -- The better end: surviving (and dying) on your own terms in today's modern medical world -- Speaking personally. | |
| 520 | |a A vital roadmap to planning your own end-of-life care. While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where we die, so we need to make decisions surrounding death, too. Or those decisions may be made for us. Threading compelling real-life stories and practical guidance throughout, this book helps readers navigate end-of-life care for themselves and their loved ones. In this practical guidebook, Dr. Dan Morhaim and Shelley Morhaim offer readers hope, empowerment, and inspiration. What we choose for our end-of-life care, they assert, depends on accurate information and on our personal values. We need these not only to understand new medical advances but also to appreciate the wisdom of humanity's past and present. Dan Morhaim, an emergency medicine physician and former Maryland state legislator, guides readers through the medical, legal, and financial maze of end-of-life care. He details the care choices available to patients and explains why living wills and advance directives are a necessity for every American. He tells readers where to find free and readily available living wills and advance directives and why it is so important for everyone--young and old--to complete them. Meanwhile, Shelley Morhaim draws on her experience as a therapeutic music practitioner for hospice and hospital patients to offer compassion to readers facing hard decisions. Organized as a roadmap that people should follow when they plan end-of-life care and contingencies, this book helps readers keep decisions in their own hands and spare their families the uncertainty and trauma of guessing about their end-of-life wishes. Breaking down the barriers to a difficult but essential topic, Preparing for a Better End helps readers open this often-avoided discussion with their loved ones while providing the information and guidance needed to ensure that deeply held values are reflected and honored. | ||
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