After Sudden Loss
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Living With Grief®: After Sudden Loss (DVD) addresses the intensity of grief and lack of preparation of sudden death as we deal with losses like those that occur from suicide, homicide, accidents, heart attack, or stroke. The accompanying book (ISBN: 1-56032-578-X) discusses the intense and complicated reactions surrounding sudden deaths, and how professionals can best address the needs of those grieving the loss of a loved one unexpectedly.
Aging America: Coping with Loss, Dying and Death in Later Life - Book
America is aging at a rapid rate with 10,000 people in the U.S. turning 65 every day. By 2040, Medicare is expected to include 80 million enrollees. Advanced age can bring a range of losses from a spouse or partner to independence and identity. Along with experiencing multiple losses, older people are more likely to suffer from multiple chronic conditions requiring complex medical care and raising potential ethical issues at the end of life. HFA’s newest publication, Aging America: Coping with Loss, Dying, and Death in Later Life, examines ways that mental health professionals, healthcare providers, and the wider community can support the growing number of aging Americans through these losses.
Alzheimer's Disease
In Living with Grief®: Alzheimer’s Disease (DVD), an expert panel discusses the medical community’s discoveries on diagnoses, progression, and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as the grieving process for patients and families during the course of the illness. The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-05-6) offers insight and advice to all who are involved in the care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
At Work, At School, At Worship
Living with Grief®: At Work, At School, At Worship (DVD) examines the ways that grief influences us in a variety of settings, offering humane and practical suggestions to workplaces, schools, and places of worship as to how they can assist those struggling with illness and loss. The companion book by the same title (ISBN: 1-58391-006-9) identifies and discusses how grief influences individuals in day-to-day surroundings and offers advice to assist those struggling with loss.
Before and After the Death
Living with Grief®: Before and After the Death (DVD) features a panel discussion exploring the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-08-7) explores similar topics, with a special emphasis on anticipatory grief and mourning, professional self-care, DSM-V classification, disenfranchise grief, and other insights into the field of grief and bereavement.
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Cancer and End-of-Life Care
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Living with Grief®: Cancer and End-of-Life Care (DVD) addresses care options related to cancer diagnoses as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families, and professional caregivers. The book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-11-7) by the same title serves as a companion to the panel discussion, and offers further information on treating cancer when the goal of care is palliative. The latest installment to the Living with Grief® series reviews how a holistic plan of care can allow persons living with terminal cancer to live and die with dignity.
Children and Adolescents
Starting from $17.48
Living with Grief®: Children and Adolescents (DVD) features a panel discussion on the ways children and adolescents grieve and how to help them. The teleconference features voices and stories of children and adolescents as well as an expert panel of clinicians and practitioners. The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-09-5) by the same title is written by experts and examines child and adolescent grief in a variety of situations. This book includes chapters on parent loss, sibling loss, loss of a friend, play therapy, protocol for schools, and recommendations for grieving adolescents.
End-of-Life Ethics: A Case Study Approach
Starting from $9.95
This DVD program examines, using a case study approach, the ethical issues and dilemmas that emerge at the end-of-life, the principles of ethical decision-making and the effects of these decisions on patients, families and staff. The cases in the End-of-Life Ethics: A Case Study Approach book (ISBN 978-1-893349-14-8), all written by prominent professionals in end-of-life care or ethics, use case studies to bring to life ethical principles in practice.
Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
Available for self-study
Starting from $28.95
The Living with Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss DVD addresses issues adolescents face as they cope with loss and explores the ways that hospices, educators, social workers, counselors, clergy, funeral directors, and parents can assist grieving adolescents. Living with Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss, the book (ISBN 9781893349179), focuses on types of loss adolescents may face and ways to assist. Some of the foremost experts in the field share their insights in this 24 chapter volume. Click here to order the self-study program.
Living with Grief Library
Starting from $184.95
A collection of Living With Grief books published by the Hospice Foundation of America.
Spirituality and End-of-Life Care
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Living with Grief®: Spirituality and End-of-Life Care (DVD) features a dynamic discussion about the differences and relationship between spirituality and religion, while addressing spirituality throughout illness, death, and grief. The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-12-4) by the same title includes 17 chapters and multiple sidebars on providing sensitive and effective spiritual care at the end of life, as well as how hospice and palliative care organizations can incorporate spiritual care into existing care plans. (245 pages)
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