Coming Home: A Practical and Compassionate Guide to Caring for a Dying Loved One

by Deborah Duda

Book Overview

Provides answers to questions about efforts to ease the path of terminally ill patients to a peaceful conclusion. This book outlines how to make the final weeks as comfortable and meaningful as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984235892
• ISBN13: 9780984235896
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Synergy Books
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Just the Right Kind of Help

A practical book offering just the right kind of help when you are grappling with the grief and trauma of having a loved one who is terminally ill. For those who have the courage and situation calling for a dignified, loving death at home, this book is invaluable.

Coming Home: A Guide to Dying with Dignity

It's been 10 years since reading this book while caring for my mother-in-law.I have recommended it to many friends since then to help them with the care and preparation of death of their loved ones. Deborah Duda is an inspiration and her love and humor at such a difficult time is tremendously uplifting.

I don't know what I would have done without it

This wonderful book is a practical guide for caregivers and family members helping someone they love who is dying at home. It explains the logistics of bring a dying patient home from the hospital, resources available to home caregivers, how to give pain medications, how to make the patient comfortable (bathing, skin care, bedsores, catheters, etc.), how to deal with depression (both yours and the patient's), dealing with feelings about dying, legal considerations, preparation for death and afterward. Without this book I would have been terrified to take care of my grandmother at home until she died. With it, I was able to share her last six months and become closer to the amazing woman that was my grandmother. Those days are some of the most precious of my life, and I used "Coming Home" everyday. We bought a case of the books and distributed them to others sharing similar experiences.