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At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life

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The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life deal with our aging population.
Most people say they want to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, ends up in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions. Many undergo painful procedures as an alternative of having the better and more peaceful death they deserve.
AT PEACE outlines specific active and passive steps that older patients and their health-care proxies can take to make sure loved ones live their last days comfortably at home and/or in hospice when further aggressive care is beside the point.
Through Dr. Samuel Harrington’s own experience with the aging and deaths of his parents and of working with patients, he describes the terminal patterns of the six most common chronic diseases; how to recognize a terminal diagnosis even when the doctor isn’t clear about it; how to have the hard conversation about end-of-life wishes; how to minimize painful treatments; when to are looking for hospice care; and how to handle dementia and other special issues.
Informed by more than thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Harrington came to keep in mind that the American health-care system wasn’t designed to treat the aging population with care and compassion. His work as a hospice trustee and later as a hospital trustee drove his passion for helping patients make appropriate end-of-life decisions.

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