Includes sample form of a contract for compassionate care, a sample form of tools for the compassion protocol, and glossary of terms.
Contents:
Looking ahead. Your right to die -- The competent elderly -- The terminally ill -- Alzheimer's dementia and the compassion protocol -- Step one: know your options -- Step two : make your decisions -- Step three : communicate your decisions -- Step four : do the paperwork -- Step five : plan the kind of death you want -- Hospice and the compassion protocol -- Everyone's worst fear : the nursing home -- Looking ahead.
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