When Someone Dies : A Practical Guide to Holistic Care at the End of Life

This book presents clear and sensitive guidance for nurses and health care professionals on all aspects of dealing with patient deaths. Advice ranges from coping with your own emotions and those of relatives, to all the practical arrangements which have to be made. It includes advice on sitting with dying people, lists of services offering help and counselling, and facts for every situation - when to call the coroner, organ donation, wills, and how death is viewed by people of different faiths.

* ·Readers are advised how best to support and communicate with patients and their families from diagnosis through to death and after *
· Available choices of treatment are clearly set out so that these can be discussed with the patient to arrive at an informed plan of care *
·Advice on sensitive issues such as organ and sperm donation, living wills and non-resuscitation directives is offered, and the practical tasks that need to be carried out after death are explained

"...a simple easy-to-access fund of information and addresses [...] The final chapter on different religions and beliefs is particularly interesting and informative. [...] Overall this book is well written and easy to read. [...] ...a worth-while addition to any medical library."Physiotherapy
and practical advice on caring for the bereaved [...] This book will sit comfortably in any clinical area and is an extemely useful guide to the practical issues of caring for people at the end of their lives."Nursing Standard