Living with Life-Threatening Illness

A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-7879-4048-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 559 g

A hands-on guide for patients, families, and caregivers on how tolive an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritualtraumas of life-threatening illness.

Every page of this book reveals the author's keen awareness of thechallenges faced by patients, families, and caregivers dealing withlife threatening illnesses. In page after page readers willdiscover clear, practical, and wise suggestions that are wellgrounded in personal experience. Don't we all know somebody whoneeds this book now?
--Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., Editor, Omega Journal of Death andDying

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doka, Kenneth J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Charles A. Corr.

Responses to Life-Threatening Illness.

Understanding the Illness Experience.

Understanding the Road Before.

The Crisis of Diagnosis.

Living with Disease.

Coping with Recovery.

Facing the Crisis of Death.

Facing Illness as a Family.

Coping with Loss.

The Sensitive Caregiver.

Conclusion.

Appendix 1: Resources.

Appendix 2: Examples of Health Care Proxies and Living Wills.

Über Autor(innen)

KENNETH J. DOKA is a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle and a Lutheran minister. He is the former president of the Association of Death Education and Counseling and the author of Disenfranchised Grief and Death and Spirituality.