For Health Care Professionals A Resource for Your Organization

Improving Quality of Life

Access to information can improve feelings of competency and preparedness among individuals and caregivers, leading to improved quality of life.

As a resource for select patients and families, it provides 24/7 easy access to information about common issues, enabling independent learning and problem solving. Increased knowledge among patients, their loved ones and caregivers creates more time during nursing and social work visits for more focused assessment, anticipatory teaching, and problem prevention, resulting in higher rates of patient and family satisfaction, better quality of life, and decreased need for after-hours emergency calls.

Improving Quality of Care

Increasing the knowledge of new staff and volunteers can improve quality of care.

As a staff and volunteer educational tool it increases awareness of and empathy for the patient and family experience, and provides a model for evidence-based whole-person, whole-family focused care for a range issues.

Improving Efficiency of Care

Providing staff with standardized information can save staff time and increase family caregiving competency.

As a standardized information tool it provides written instructions, lists, and other problem solving tools that can be easily customized, if needed, and quickly shared with patients and families for more than 30 common issues, including medication management, patient and caregiver safety, and caregiving in the final days.

Improving Access to Care

Increasing referral sources’ conversations about patient and family goals can promote earlier enrollment in hospice care.

As a tool for referral sources it can increase referral sources’ comfort in initiating timely conversations about patient and family goals. When given to families living with serious illness, this guide can increase their understanding of palliative hope and the role of hospice to achieve quality of life.

Improving Resource Stewardship through Cost-Effective Care

Utilizing cost-effective tools to deliver quality care can enhance health care agencies’ capacity to meet the growing need for services.

As a cost-effective adjuvant to hospice and palliative care, this resource can save staff time and other resources while improving quality of care and quality of life. As a measure of cost-effectiveness, if this resource saves fifteen minutes of nursing or social work time, or prevents one after-hours telephone call over the patient’s entire length of stay, it pays for itself.

Discounts for Purchases of Ten or More Copies

Living at the End of Life is available at a discount to health care agencies and others that wish to purchase ten or more copies. It’s also available at a discount to organizations that wish to resell the book. In-Service presentations are available, upon request.

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