Overview

In the nearly fifty years since hospice emerged in the United States, it has evolved from a consumer-driven concept of humane care for the dying to a mega-dollar industry. In the process, the priority has changed from the intimacies of caregiving to profits for stockholders. Hospice Manifesto: Reclaiming the People's Mandate traces that progression, compares the development to other political movements in the healthcare arena, and recommends actions for hospice activists to reclaim the spirit of hospice.

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That hospice, born of such caring intentions, has now become a cash register for our free-market healthcare system infuriates, saddens, and scares me. I agree: People should know about this and, in knowing, push against this trend. Beautifully written. I love it. -Anna Rahman, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California Hospice Manifesto chronicles a fascinating and unvarnished historical narrative detailing the promise, people and pitfalls involved in bringing the UK's visionary hospice services model to the US. (...) Her work here serves as a poignant and timely reminder that prioritizing humanism in health care over profit always must be our imperative. A page-turner book. Bravo! -Rebecca Kirch, JD, Executive Vice President, Policy and Programs, National Patient Advocate Foundation This important book shows how hospice-created by families and activists-is becoming just another big business. Susan Silver calls for taking back the movement and shows us how to do it. -Bill Novelli, Professor, Georgetown University, Former CEO, AARP Author, Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World

"""That hospice, born of such caring intentions, has now become a cash register for our free-market healthcare system infuriates, saddens, and scares me. I agree: People should know about this and, in knowing, push against this trend. Beautifully written. I love it."" -Anna Rahman, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California ""Hospice Manifesto chronicles a fascinating and unvarnished historical narrative detailing the promise, people and pitfalls involved in bringing the UK's visionary hospice services model to the US. (...) Her work here serves as a poignant and timely reminder that prioritizing humanism in health care over profit always must be our imperative. A page-turner book. Bravo!"" -Rebecca Kirch, JD, Executive Vice President, Policy and Programs, National Patient Advocate Foundation ""This important book shows how hospice-created by families and activists-is becoming just another big business. Susan Silver calls for taking back the movement and shows us how to do it."" -Bill Novelli, Professor, Georgetown University, Former CEO, AARP Author, Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World"

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In the 1970's and '80's, Susan Silver was Director of Hospice Action and Book Review Editor for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She was the first-and briefest-employee of the National Hospice Organization, and a founder and Executive Director of Hospice Care of the District of Columbia. For the thirty years following, she directed numerous non-profit health and social services organizations in Washington, DC. Today she is the volunteer Executive Director of Comprehensive Care in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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