Index of site (by broad categories)
Good books (recommended reading on various topics)
• The art of obituary writing
• Cancer, informative books about
• Cancer, memoirs about
• Caregiving for elders and patients with Alzheimer's
• Caregivers and caregiving (books by, for, and about)
• Caregiving for elders
• Complex and difficult endings , including suicide, homicide, physician-assisted suicide, violence (including domestic violence), sudden death (from accidents and otherwise), dementia and other forms of lingering illness
• Coping with chronic or invisible illnesses
• Grief, bereavement, and recovery (books offering comfort or understanding)
• Death, dying, loss, and grief, best books about
• Grieving the loss of a child
• Home funerals and family-directed funerals
• How stories can lead to healing and self-understanding
• Medical reference
• The practice of medicine and health care--for patients and caregivers (to help them understand the professionals they will depend on)
• Memoirs of coping with chronic, rare, or invisible diseases or conditions, including mental health problems
• Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival
• Narrative medicine
• Writing an ethical will or legacy message
Managing life for elderly and disabled patients (including caring for aging parents and adults with Alzheimer's
• Assisted living
• Advice, reflections, equipment, services
• Traveling with limited mobility and other disabilities
• Changing attitudes about disability
• Books about caregiving for elders and patients with Alzheimer's
• Orga nizing and dealing with things and information'
• Legal and financial matters
• End-of-life decision-making in the critical care unit