Palliative and Hospice Care Resources
At some time during your caregiving journey, you may reach a point where you must consider palliative or hospice care for your loved one. For this book, I’ve focused on providing caregiving resources and preparation materials to help families before a loved one arrives at the palliative and end-of-life, hospice stages. However, I did not want to neglect this topic because it is such an important conversation to have.
For additional information on palliative and end-of-life, hospice care, you may find the following websites helpful.
National Institute on Aging (NIA), article on providing care and comfort at the end of life
CaringInfo, a program of the National Alliance for Care at Home, article with links about palliative care and hospice care
The following books may also be useful in learning more about palliative and end-of-life, hospice care.
A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by Dr. B. J. Miller and Shoshana Berger
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi