Bringing Grandy Home for End-Of-Life Care With Family

A Grandy-flat addition built onto a family home quickly changes into a health care facility for an elderly parent in this teaching memoir of terminal health care. The author, a nurse, who works with the Hospice of Hampshire County in Northampton, Massachusetts, has used her own unique family "parenting" experience plus hospice training to help other patient/families understand & implement care issues for the dying at home. Although not possible for all patient/families, the health care revolution that America is embroiled in forces home care to be the only viable alternative for many people who need help. BRINGING GRANDY HOME is a family resource & guide covering: choices & needs for elderly living; education in home care; networking community agencies for health care (hospice, homemakers, visiting nurse service, home care service); setting up at home with a medical care team, a daily care plan & dietary needs; helps for the caregiver, the patient, other family & friends; handling death, memorial & bereavement; financial costs, covered in the story & corresponding exhibit section. Death is "coming home" again where it survived for many generations; the place where most elders prefer to spend their final days. 0-9641197-0-6, revised ed., 1994, this Elder Home Care How-To includes: Architectural plan of Grandy-flat addition; Large print for easier reading; Advanced directives: Health care proxy, Living will, Durable power of attorney; Notes sections for Individualized record-keeping; 3 cover photos of Grandy-flat; Addendum & Reference sections; Bar Code. $18 pb. 5% sales tax MA residents=$.90. Author is a graduate of Skidmore College School of Nursing, 1952. BS, RN, MA degree course work completed, Univ. of Massachusetts. Order through E-Mail: elluusmith@aol.com.N. Laurie Clark is the author of 'Bringing Grandy Home for End-Of-Life Care With Family' with ISBN 9780964119703 and ISBN 0964119706.