Palliative Care


Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
When Breath Becomes Air
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner)
The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Man's Search for Meaning
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice
Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Future Widow by Jenny LiskOwn Your Care by Jeanne  LeeLight in the Last Days by Shari Brase-SmithWhen Evening Comes by Christine AndreaeSort of Forever by Sally Warner
Hospice
25 books — 25 voters

Margaret Atwood
The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly. ...more
Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

Kimberly D. Acquaviva
Sexual health is as achievable and reasonable a goal for patients in palliative care and hospice care as pain relief, but few hospice and palliative care professionals include sexual health within their assessment and plan of care. Given that sexuality is a central aspect of being human, sexual health should be part of the assessment and plan for every patient receiving palliative care and hospice care.
Kimberly D. Acquaviva, LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice

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