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When we fear death, we miss out on a lot of life. This book hopes to change that. While hospices care for persons in their final days, hospice is not about death. It's all about LIFE - real, nitty-gritty, poignant, funny, challenging, and bittersweet life in all its beauty and imperfection.

Oftentimes caregivers, friends, and family are unsure of what to say and what to do to comfort the sick and the dying. Midwife for Souls provides specific Catholic insight and highlights the power of prayer as a guide. This best-selling book has been revised to include a new section of inspiring stories and lessons learned in hospice ministry. 

Individuals approaching the end of life, and their loved ones, face many challenges - but as hospice nurse Karen Whitley Bell reassures us, this difficult time also offers an opportunity to explore and rediscover a richer meaning in life. Drawing on her years of experience, Bell has created a comprehensive, insightful guide to every aspect of hospice care and the final stages of life. For people in hospice care, as well as their friends and families, this is an indispensable reference, a trustworthy source of comfort and spiritual healing.

For both professionals and laypeople, this book weaves personal stories with practical care guidelines, including: living with a life-threatening illness, signs of the dying process, the stages of grief, living wills, and other end of life issues. The Final Act of Living: Reflections of a Long-Time Hospice Nurse is an end of life book; a resource that flows like a novel, yet has the content of a textbook.

This guided imagery for hospice and palliative care is designed for patients and their families looking for closeness, resolution and closure during end of life care. The powerful, soothing tracks of guided meditation and affirmations on this uniquely comforting guided imagery for palliative...

Facing end-of-life decisions for a loved one can feel overwhelming but compassionate guidance can make all the difference. The Hospice Q & A Book: Advocating For Your Loved Ones by JoAnn Barmettler, compassionately narrated by Madeline Starr and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is an essential hospice care and caregiving audiobook designed to help families navigate hospice and end-of-life care with clarity, confidence, and peace of mind.

For nearly a decade, Jackie watched over her father's care. She quickly found her world filled with adult diapers, a pharmacy of pills, and days heavily laced in utter boredom. As the days melted together, Jackie came to understand what her father was teaching her - how to live in constant gratitude and with a heart full of love.

In this deeply affecting and uplifting book, Janet Wehr shares the real-life stories of her many years as a hospice nurse. Her first-hand account gives illuminating and comforting insight into the spiritual aspect of what occurs in the transition between life and death, highlighting the importance of the mind-body-spirit connection as it manifests in the dying process. It also gives a candid impression of hospices and hospice nurses and the services they can provide. All of Janet’s 46 personal stories are true, fascinating, heart-felt, and thought-provoking.

Are you caring for a loved one in hospice care or have you recently lost someone you love? Whether it’s an elderly parent or a terminally ill spouse or child, the passing of someone you love is a life-changing experience. It affects family, friends, as well as hospice team members who provide end-of-life care. The story of every life lived deserves to be shared with others. Letters to a Hospice Nurse is a celebration of life! This audiobook is a collection of 12 beautiful love letters.

Welcome to ZibaCare Podcasts, where we explore very short meditations, prayers, and information in hospice care. We invite you to sit back, take time for yourself, and listen. ZibaHospice.com About Ziba Hospice. Ziba Hospice is a small family hospice that is able to extend the highest level of courtesy, respect and quality care for patients who are dying and their families/ Because we are small, we are able to provide individualized, compassionate care that meets the unique needs and wishes of each family. With emphasis on comfort and dignity, our healthcare professionals are easily available....

This is a short, easy-to-understand story of life and death, family and community, health and medicine, and systemic, societal problems. This is a cautionary tale. If you ask my sisters and many others, they would say Hospice was wonderful. People want to believe what the professionals are doing is the right thing to do. I saw things differently. May this book keep your eyes open.

Grab-and-go inspirations are here in bite-sized pieces. There are my rules and gifts to you for growing a good life - even in the confusing soils of caregiving. Inside-out survival that is both practical and doable. Caregiving is love’s race. And that is the miracle of taking care. This book is about those more balanced choices.

Being present at the bedside—EVEN AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH—can become an experience embedded in the minds and souls of family members for generations. It is a deeply emotional time, one of relief and sadness. Anyone who has taken that final journey with a loved one will never forget those moments. Dr. Edward Creagan has dedicated his life to death. And now this esteemed medical doctor examines death, not only from a medical standpoint, but from an acutely emotional perspective as events beyond our control unfold.

Welcome to Life: Compassionate conversations around advanced illness and the end-of-life journey. This podcast is intended to provide insight and education into how hospice & palliative care services can help patients and families through the end-of-life journey. It is not intended to replace professional medical advice or diagnoses. We encourage you to seek advice from your physician for questions regarding a medical condition. Hosted by Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County’s Development Director, Mindy Rice.

What does the end of life teach us about living well now? How can significant threshold moments in our own lives catapult us into richer, more meaningful livs? The key to moving with ease and grace through life’s thresholds is knowing how deeply loved and supported we are by the Source of our being. This love is so great that its one constant invitation is to BeLoved. When we know ourselves as resting in perfect Love, all things are made new.

Evelyn Amdur, a hospice social worker, began to write these stories midway through her career, collaborating with her daughter, Shelley. Many traditional cultures have a custom of "death songs", which rest on the idea that at one's last moment, one somehow sums up the essence of one's life in a phrase or a song. Woven into these stories are instructions on how to die well, not only in what spirit we face death itself, but also through instructions on what is necessary to prepare our families, to ready our estates, and to manage all the players who may be involved in our deaths.

This podcast, hosted by Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, encourages conversations about topics most people avoid. The short conversations cover everything from end-of-life planning, palliative care, hospice care, death, dying, and grief. Our hope is that by talking about these things more everyone will be able to face them with a little more courage, compassion, and maybe even a laugh or two. It's a journey we're all on. Let's talk about it!

Honest conversations about life, death and so much more. Your host, Stephen Rumford, talks to people who have experiences of death and dying to get a deeper understanding of what life and death means to them. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up with us on our socials. Twitter: @Ashgate_Hospice Facebook: www.facebook.com/AshgateHospice Instagram: @ashgate_hospice The Life and Death Podcast is brought to you by Ashgate Hospice and produced by Reform Radio.

Hospice nurse Penny Terrell has walked alongside countless people in their final moments—holding hands, offering comfort, and witnessing scenes she could never explain. In Not Going Alone, Penny shares these stories—not as proof or persuasion, but as a collection of experiences too beautiful to forget. Told with compassion and humility, these stories offer comfort to the grieving, hope to the fearful, and wonder to the curious. They remind us that death may not always be an ending—it is a moment of connection that reaches beyond the veil.

This book details coping tips for those dealing with the death of a loved one. The tips were compiled by a nurse and End-of-Life-Doula with 15 years of experience dealing with families. If you or someone you love is having trouble dealing with death, this guide will provide valuable tips to heal and make the process smoother.