Synopsis
Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measures, and the Patient with a Serious Illness, Sixth Edition, is a guide for helping patients and families with end-of-life decisions.<BR> <BR>--BOOK TOPICS INCLUDE--<BR> <BR>- Considering the goals of medical care before making healthcare decisions<BR> <BR>- Treatments such as CPR, feeding tubes, dialysis, pacemakers, implanted defibrillators, hospitalization, palliative care, and hospice care as they apply to patients with a serious illness<BR> <BR>- The emotional and spiritual concerns at the end of life for people of any or no faith tradition; the journey at the final stages of life is framed as a journey of letting go and letting be<BR> <BR>Dr. Ira Byock, founder and chief medical officer of the Providence Institute for Human Caring and author of Dying Well, endorses the book as 'clear and concise, yet sensitive to the emotional turmoil of potential readers. Over the years, Hard Choices for Loving People is the book I have recommended most often to families confronting the complexities of medical treatments for loved ones with serious illnesses.'<BR> <BR>Since the book was first published in 1990, over 4 million copies have been sold. Hard Choices is available as an audiobook and in Spanish, Decisiones Difíciles para los Seres Queridos.
About the Author
Hank Dunn is an ordained healthcare chaplain, best-selling author and speaker who, for more than 30 years, has been helping patients and their families as they struggle with end-of-life decisions.<BR> <BR>Chaplain Dunn's top-selling books on end-of-life decision-making, Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measure, and the Patient with a Serious Illness and Light in the Shadows: Meditations While Living with a Life-Threatening Illness, offer honest, practical, reliable advice and information, as well as help with the emotional and spiritual concerns families and patients face during this most difficult time of life.<BR> <BR>A graduate of the University of Florida, Hank received his Master of Divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has served as president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Alzheimer s Association, on the Ethics Committees of the Fairfax Nursing Center and the Reston Hospital Center and on the Chaplaincy Advisory Board for the Loudoun Hospital Center. He most recently volunteered as a chaplain at Loudoun Hospital.<BR> <BR>Hank is a nationally-renowned speaker on the topics of end-of-life decision-making, spirituality, and healthcare. His books have sold more than 3.8 million copies.
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