Living with Dying: A Complete Guide for Caregivers

Katie Ortlip, RN, LCSW, is a Hospice Expert on SHARECARE, Dr. Ahmet Oz's online health and wellness platform. Katie is co-author of Spiritual Tools for the Dying, a booklet distributed by Asante Health Care of Oregon to all patients on hospice. She received her nursing degree from Santa Barbara City College in 1982 and spent three years working in neonatology at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City and Mary Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire. Katie earned a BS in Psychology and Masters of Social Work at SUNY-Albany. She has worked as a social worker for Asante Hospice for the past twenty-five years.

Jahnna Beecham most recently edited National Geographic's Science Encyclopedia, which was released in the fall of 2016, and was a contributing editor for National Geographic's The Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Birds. Under the pen name Jahnna N. Malcolm, Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner have written more than 130 books for juveniles and young adults for Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Random House, HarperCollins, Bantam and others. Jahnna has written award-winning learning systems and books for Hooked on Phonics. She also wrote a humorous parenting column for Sesame Street Parents Magazine.