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To ensure death with dignity, patients need holistic care. This means that their practical, social, emotional and spiritual needs must all be met. Hannah Cooke links all these areas and provides practical support and advice on areas such as choices of treatment (including the use of complementary therapies), pain control, counselling and religious beliefs. There is also a section on the care of the bereaved with a list of helpful organizations that can be contacted. She also includes a list of services offering help and counselling - when to call the coroner, organ donation, wills, how death is viewed by people of different faiths, as well as advice on sitting with dying people.

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.,. a simple easy-to-access fund of information and addresses [...] The final chapter on different religions and beliefs is particularly interesting and informative. [...] Overall this book is well written and easy to read. [...] ...a worth-while addition to any medical library. Physiotherapy<br>and practical advice on caring for the bereaved [...] This book will sit comfortably in any clinical area and is an extemely useful guide to the practical issues of caring for people at the end of their lives. Nursing Standard

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