No one has to die alone preparing for a meaningful death

"The experience of caring for a loved one through terminal illness and eventual loss can be incredibly isolating and emotionally overwhelming. No One Dies Alone offers accessible insights, practical tools, and personal stories to provide a sense of community, profound relief, and deep meaning f...

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Main Author: Leary, Lani.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2012.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
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Summary: "The experience of caring for a loved one through terminal illness and eventual loss can be incredibly isolating and emotionally overwhelming. No One Dies Alone offers accessible insights, practical tools, and personal stories to provide a sense of community, profound relief, and deep meaning for both caregiver and patient through illness, death, and bereavement. The first half of No One Dies Alone focuses on caregiving, while the second half focuses on the grieving process, including an entire chapter on how to compassionately support the unique needs of children through the grieving process. Each chapter is written to stand alone, allowing readers to reference any chapter and apply that information to their unique challenge"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: xxi, 246 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781582703527 (pbk.)
1582703523 (pbk.)
9781451665000 (ebk.)
1451665008 (ebk.)
Author Notes: With over twenty-five years of experience as a psychotherapist working with chronically ill, dying, and bereaved clients, Dr. Lani Leary intimately understands the needs of both patient and caregiver. She is the author of the internationally bestselling audiotape Healing Hands, and has served as the director of mental health services at Whitman Walker AIDS clinic and as a professor of death studies at George Mason University. She currently writes a regular online column on healing after loss, Healing Tears for www.HealingTheSpirit.org.