Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning & Care Guide

Author: Harry van Bommel
ISBN #: 1-55307-002-X
Publisher: Resources Supporting Family and Community Legacies Inc.

“I Don’t Know What to Say…”

How to Help and Support Someone who is Dying
Author: Dr. Robert Buckman
ISBN #: 1-55013-092-7
Publisher: Key Porter Books

Summary:
“When people we love are dying, we all too often are unable to help them—or even talk to them—about impending loss. The authoritative and empathetic guide offers practical advice for the friends and families of the terminally ill”

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life

Author: David Kuhl (M.D.)
ISBN #: 0-385-65883-4
Publisher: DoubleDay Canada

Summary:
“In What Dying People Want, an internationally renowned palliative care physician offers a profound and practical book about living with a terminal illness. Dr. David Kuhl provides guidance, solace, and helpful strategies for people who are terminally ill and their families and caregivers”

Choices for People who Have a Terminal Illness, Their Families and Their Caregivers (3rd revised edition)

Author: Harry van Bommel
ISBN #: 1-55021-054-8
Publisher: New Canada Publications

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying

Author: Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
ISBN #: 0-553-56139-1
Publisher: Bantam Books

Summary:
“For more than a decade hospice nurses, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley have tended the terminally ill. Now, in this moving and compassionate book, they share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life”

Palliative Care Consultations Primary and Metastatic Brain Tumours

Author: Sara Booth, Eduardo Bruera
ISBN #: 978-0-19-852807-4
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary:
There are few more distressing problems for patients and families than the development of a primary or secondary brain tumour.  Treatment is often palliative through intensive, from the start.  Little firm evidence exists to guide the physician in caring for patients with seizures refractory to standard treatment.  Most of the work is based on case reports or personal experience.