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* Hospice and Home Care
Living With Life-Threatening Illness: A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers [icon]
By Kenneth J. Doka. A valuable book for families faced with severe illness, either their own or that of a loved one. Emphasizing the experience of living with illness, rather than simply focusing on its terminal phase, this guide outlines the tasks and issues that must be faced at each phase of illness, and offers workable suggestions for effective coping. Includes examples of health care proxies and living wills.

* Death With Dignity
Death and Spirituality [icon]
Edited by Kenneth J. Doka with John D. Morgan. This book gives a comprehensive overview of spritual and religious themes likely to arise in caregiving to the dying and the bereaved. It is an excellent educational resource for community clergy, chaplains, pastoral care workers, hospice workers, bereavement counselors, thanatologists, and anyone else who wants a detailed review of current issues in this field. Published February, 1999.

* General Bereavement
Living With Grief [icon]
Kenneth J. Doka, Editor. A compilation of cross-cultural essays on loss and grief with emphasis on ethnic, spiritual, class, and gender diversity in grieving. Includes a directory of resource organizations. This is the companion book for the 1998 bereavement teleconference sponsored by the Hospice Foundation Of America. Published April, 1998.

Living With Grief: When Illness Is Prolonged [icon]
Chronic illness and prolonged dying create special tensions that can be a terrible burden both for the person who is ill and those affected by the illness. Changes in role relationships have psychological and practical ripple effects throughout the extended family. Here's a compilation of resource materials provided by the Hospice Foundation of America, edited by Kenneth Doka. Articles cover disease-specific situations such as Alzheimer's, AIDS, and cognitive dementia. Published April 1997.

Living With Grief After Sudden Loss [icon]
Edited by Kenneth Doka. A collection of articles by specialists in various forms of traumatic loss, including suicides, homicide, accidents, heart attacks, strokes, and other specialized forms of death. Includes information on vehicular crashes, grief in the military, traumatic death, disaster death, law enforcement and emergency medical service (EMS) personnel, the media, response of schools and teachers, and spiritual support after a sudden loss. Intended for bereavement counselors who need to deal with a wide variety of trauma due to specialized losses.

* Helping Children With Illness And Grief
Mourning Children, Children Mourning [icon]
Ken Doka (Editor). Children grieve in ways that are both similar to and different from adults. They also need significant support when facing loss. This excellent sourcebook gives a useful introduction to the field for educators and caregivers.

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