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Links to other OrganizationsFor more information about palliative care and hospice, you can visit these sites:
For more information about caregiving, you can visit:
For more information about serious illnesses, treatments, and other medical topics, you can visit:
For more information about home health care, you can visit these sites:
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Helpful PublicationsPublications produced by Lifetime Care are available for purchase by individuals and by other healthcare providers. Hundreds of hospices and other organizations now use these in their family and community education programs.
Suddenly Solo and Starving: Recipes for Healing After Loss.
This unusual 350-page cookbook offering helpful hints and anecdotes about cooking for one was created by people who have gone through the grieving experience, a group of Hospice volunteers.
- Also includes menu ideas and food preparation tips
- Addresses various aspects of grieving
350 pages, $15 per copy (shipping included)
Journeys End, by hospice nurse Deborah Sigrist.
Widely praised by members of our hospice families, this powerful booklet helps ease the fears of families about the dying process and advises them about things they can do to make their loved ones more comfortable. The booklet provides guidance that is gentle but direct.
32 pages. $4 per copy (shipping included).
Finding Your Way Through Grief, by bereavement counselor Theo Munson.
This popular booklet is given to every family served by our hospice and is available to anyone in any of our support groups. Focusing on coping techniques and support systems, it draws on the author’s 14 years in oncology and bereavement counseling to reassure and offer suggestions.
24 pages. $3 per copy (shipping included).
The Patient Visitor: A Guide to Comforting A Dying Friend, also by Theo Munson
The advice in this new booklet comes from the best possible sources, terminally ill patients served by Lifetime Care Hospice and members of their families. Their eloquent testimony can assist anyone in overcoming personal feelings of inadequacy, hesitancy and worry that fuel putting off a visit to someone we care about.
44 pages. $5 per copy (shipping included).
Discounts are offered on bulk orders of these three publications.
- 25-99 copies 10 percent discount
- 100-199 copies 15 percent discount
- 200+ copies 20 percent discount
Hospices and other healthcare providers may request sample copies of any publication by calling (585) 214-1415. Back to top>> |
