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A Hospice Guide Book: Hospice Care: a Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey
A Hospice Guide Book: Hospice Care: a Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey
A Hospice Guide Book: Hospice Care: a Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey
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When you or a loved one are diagnosed with a terminal illness, you wonder what can be done to make life easier and more meaningful during the remaining time on earth. In A Hospice Guide Book, author Dr. Curtis E. Smith shows how the concept of hospice, which emphasizes the important provisions of comfort care through the end-of-life journey, can help terminal patients die a comfortable, peaceful death with dignity.

A resource for families, patients, and health care providers, A Hospice Guide Book provides a thorough explanation of the hospice concept. It discusses
the definition of hospice care and its origins;
hospice fallacies, myths, and facts;
alternative care modalities;
the hospice team and its responsibilities;
levels of care and treatment;
pain and pain management;
hospice residences;
end of life care.

A Hospice Guide Book presents a plethora of information about hospice, enabling those who could become hospice patients the opportunity to receive the benefit of expert comfort care; pain control management; symptom control; and emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support as they live with their terminal illness during the end-of-life journey and peacefully transition from this life to the next.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 4, 2012
ISBN9781462400133
A Hospice Guide Book: Hospice Care: a Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey
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Dr. Curtis E. Smith

Dr. Curtis E. Smith, an ordained, non-denominational minister, has worked with terminally ill patients for twenty-five years. He holds graduate degrees in marriage/family counseling, religion, and human behavior, with post-graduate degrees in psychology, religion, and human behavior. “Dr. Curtis,” as he is fondly known by colleagues and patients, has extensive experience in both acute hospital care and hospice settings, with Brea Community Hospital, Brea, California, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which occupied a wing in Brea Community Hospital. He currently works with Gentiva, a national healthcare agency. For twenty-plus years, Dr. Curtis was in private practice as a clinical pastoral psychotherapist. This work on hospice is the second edition to Dr. Curtis’s first book, When It’s Time. Other books by Dr. Smith: See, Point, and Say, a communication guidebook for use by individuals with speech, hearing, and writing handicaps; A Hospice Guide Book, designed to introduce the general public to hospice care, which follows the terminally ill patient from referral to discharge, addressing everything you need to know about hospice care programs.

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