A better way of dying
Subtitle: how to make the best choices at the end of life
By: Jeanne Fitzpatrick, Eileen M. Fitpatrick.
Contributors: Fitpatrick, Eileen M.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780143116752
Subjects: Fitzpatrick, Jeanne; Advance directives (Medical care); Terminal care; Advance Care Planning -- Personal Narratives; Attitude to Death -- Personal Narratives; Patient Advocacy -- ethics -- Personal Narratives; Terminal Care -- ethics -- Personal Narratives; Terminal Care -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Personal Narratives
Table of contents: title: The need for change : the cautionary tale of Phyllis Shattuck; title: Your right to die; title: The competent elderly; title: The terminally ill; title: Alzheimer's dementia and the compassion protocol; title: Know your options (step one); title: Make your decisions (step two); title: Communicate your decisions (step three); title: Do the paperwork (step four); title: Step five : plan the kind of death you want; title: Hospice and the compassion protocol; title: Everyone's worst fear : the nursing home; title: Looking ahead.