The Bottom Line
This is a good read for patients and their family or support support system. It's an excellent look into the heart of hospice and a good resource for any health care professional or student.
Pros
- Full of useful information for advance end-of-life planning.
- Considers the legal and practical aspects of advance planning.
Cons
- I found the stories laboring and scripted.
Description
- Authors: Susan R. Dolan, RN, JD and Audrey R. Vizzard, RN, EdD
- Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
- Year Published: 2009
- ISBN: 9781427798398
- Hard Cover Price: $19.95 (U.S.)
Guide Review - The End of Life Advisor - Book Review
"The End of Life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and medical Considerations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death" reads almost as long as it's title. Written by a mother-daughter hospice nurse team, the book is full of useful information about end-of-life care but you have to get through several laboring stories to get there.
Not that the stories are bad, they just seem a little awkward and scripted. But get past the vignettes and the meat of the book is thoughtfully planned out and covers all the bases in end-of-life care planning.
The wisdom of years of nursing experience in hospice shows as this mother-daughter team use compassionate humor to illustrate some of the most difficult situations one can imagine.
