Living with Life-Threatening Illness

A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers

Kenneth J. Doka (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

1998
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7879-4048-5 (ISBN)

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This hands-on guide for patients, families, and caregivers concerns how to live an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritual traumas of life-threatening illness. Every page of this book reveals the author's keen awareness of the challenges faced by patients, families, and caregivers dealing with life threatening illnesses.

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

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.1.1998
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 260 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin
ISBN-10	0-7879-4048-8 / 0787940488
ISBN-13	978-0-7879-4048-5 / 9780787940485
Zustand	Neuware