Description From the president of Compassion & Choices, THE guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experience you want and deserve.
Barbara\'s work in public policy culminated in her roles as chief executive officer and now President of Compassion & Choices, the nation\'s oldest and largest organization work.
For the last 25 years, she has advocated for initiatives that allow individuals a full range of options and much greater agency in their healthcare decisions.
Her indelible bedside experiences forged a deep respect for individual values and beliefs and eventually led her to a career in law and health policy.
About the author Over more than five decades, Barbara Coombs Lee worked in healthcare as a clinician, policy-maker and advocate.
Written with candor and clarity by a nurse, physician assistant and attorney who became a leading advocate for end-of-life options, this book can help you Finish STRONG.
Finish STRONG will guide you through: - Finding a partner-doctor to honor Your values and beliefs with humanity, deference and candor.- Identifying what matters most as vigor wanes and stating Your priorities.- Having meaningful conversations with doctors and family about expectations and wishes.- Staying off the "overtreatment conveyor belt."- Knowing when "slow medicine" is the best option to maintain quality of life.- Navigating home hospice, the ultimate healing experience.
This book describes concrete action in the here and now to help live our best lives to the end.
The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate.
We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick.
So why not shape it to our values? Finish STRONG is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we\'ve enjoyed.
But even though the topic has been taboo, life\'s end is an eventual reality.
It\'s hard to talk about death in America.
Description From the president of Compassion & Choices, THE guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experience you want and deserve
