Patient Resources

Below is a list of suggested reading on variety of topics related to hospice and healthcare.  We hope you find the list helpful and can use it as a beginning point to enhance your knowledge about hospice care and related subjects.


Living with the End in Mind: A Practical Checklist for Living Life to the Fullest by Embracing Your Mortality
By Kramp, Erin Tierney © 1998



Finding Hope: Ways to See Life in a Brighter Light
By Jevene, Ronna Faye © 1999


American Cancer Society’s Guide
to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods

By American Cancer Society © 2000



We Need to Talk: A Practical Guide
for Those Facing Terminal Illness
by Larry E. Quicksall (May 1, 2002)



Handbook for Mortals:
Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness

by Joanne Lynn MD, Janice Lynch Schuster and Joan Harrold MD (Jun 3, 2011)



Dying Well

by Ira Byock (Mar 1, 1998)



The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
by Ira Byock (Mar 2, 2004)



Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness
in the Presence of Death

by Joan Halifax and Ira Byock (Nov 17, 2009)



A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life’s End
by Jana Staton, Roger W. Shuy and Ira Byock (Jan 2001)

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