{"product_id":"a-few-months-to-live-jana-staton-9780878408412","title":"A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life's End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Few Months to Live \u003c\/i\u003edescribes what dying is like from the perspectives of nine terminally ill individuals and their caregivers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, the book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms-especially pain-and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life. The accounts are presented largely in the participants' own words, illuminating both the medical and non-medical challenges that arose from the time each learned the \"bad news\" through their final days of life and memorial services.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribing the nationwide crisis that surrounds end-of-life care, the authors contend that informal caregiving by relatives and close friends is an enormous and too-often invisible resource that deserves close and public attention. By incorporating not only the ill person's but also the family's perspective, they portray the nine participants in the contexts of their daily lives and relationships rather than simply as patients. Addressing such issues as palliative care, quality of life, financial hardship, grief and loss, and communications with medical personnel, the authors identify how families, professionals, and communities can respond to the challenges of terminal illness and the need to confront life's end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jana Staton, Roger W. Shuy, Ira Byock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 087840841X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780878408412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.09w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 21 - Strongly Recommended","brand":"Jana Staton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795338973439,"sku":"9780878408412","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95db4cd3-cece-4e48-aac3-f7f42c2c89c1.jpg?v=1744947299","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-few-months-to-live-jana-staton-9780878408412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}