| Description |
xviii, 222 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"Why your living will is not enough" -- Cover. |
| Contents |
The need for change : the cautionary tale of Phyllis Shattuck -- Your right to die -- The competent elderly -- The terminally ill -- Alzheimer's dementia and the compassion protocol -- Step one: know your options -- Step two : make your decisions -- Step three : communicate your decisions -- Step four : do the paperwork -- Step five : plan the kind of death you want -- Hospice and the compassion protocol -- Everyone's worst fear : the nursing home -- Looking ahead. |
| Summary |
Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guaranƯtee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving caretakers concrete, unambiguous, and legally binding instructions about your wishes for your last days. Meant for people in every walk of life-from the elderly, to those in the early stages of mentally degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, to healthy young people planning for an unpredictable future-this book creates space for a discussion we all must have if we wish to ensure comfort and control at the end of our lives. |
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Advance directives (Medical care)
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Terminal care.
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Fitzpatrick, Jeanne.
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Advance Care Planning -- Personal Narratives.
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Attitude to Death -- Personal Narratives.
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Patient Advocacy -- ethics -- Personal Narratives.
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Terminal Care -- ethics -- Personal Narratives.
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Terminal Care -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Personal Narratives.
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| Added Author |
Fitpatrick, Eileen M.
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| ISBN |
9780143116752 paperback |
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0143116754 paperback |
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