Loving, supporting, and caring for the cancer patient
Subtitle: a guide to communication, compassion, and courage
By: Stan Goldberg
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781442266155
Subjects: Patients; Care; Popular works; Cancer; Caregivers
Description: "Loving, Supporting, and Caring for the Cancer Patient is the first book to show readers how to transform the compassion felt for someone living with cancer into helpful behaviors based on suggestions from cancer patients themselves. It not only describes why certain actions are important, but also how to implement them,"--Baker & Taylor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics; title: Revealing a cancer diagnosis; title: A life of uncertainty; title: The nature of losses; title: Conversations; title: Discomfort, pain, and suffering; title: Easing a loved one's death; title: Recovering joy.