Product Description: Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr...read more

Product Description: Using examples taken from a year-long collaborative on improving end-of-life care, Improving Care aims to equip readers with the best available advice on how to make substantial improvements in the delivery of health care to seriously ill people who are coming to the end of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Improving care for the patients who are in the last phase of their lives has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during last few years. Having worked with hundreds of providers throughout the country, these experienced authors know what providers need when it comes to implementing a quality improvement project...read more

In an informative manual on the modern health-care system, the author maintains that health care and community services do not meet the needs of the people who face illness and disability before death and offers an action plan for genuine reform.

Product Description: Handbook for Mortals is warmly addressed to all those who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of our lives a time for growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this collection of eight provocative essays, the author sets forth his views on the need to replace patient-centered bioethics with family-centered bioethics. Starting with a critique of the awkward language with which philosphers argue the ethics of personal relationships, the book goes on to present a general statement on the necessity of family-centered bioethics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drs. Harrold and Lynn, Assistant Professors of Medicine and Health Care Sciences at the Center to Improve Care of the Dying at George Washington University, use their expertise on this important topic to edit this timely book on the subject of health care in the last months of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "... compelling.... This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency.... [W]e should face up to these issues now. By No Extraordinary Means will serve as an impetus and guide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)