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Our Mission:
Growth House, Inc., provides this award-winning portal as your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. Our primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration. Our search engine gives you access to the Internet's most comprehensive collection of reviewed resources for end-of-life care.
We host the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network On End-of-life Care (IICN),
a content syndication network that gives you free access to over 4,000 pages of reviewed educational materials from over forty major health care organizations. Growth House is a portal to the best materials from our partner organizations, including the full text of several books.
Our hypertext topic pages explain major issues in hospice and home care,
palliative care,
pain management, grief, death with dignity, and quality improvement.
We offer disease-specific guides for
heart failure,
end-stage renal disease, and
cancer, plus overviews of other resources.
Our online bookstore features the best books and music related to the issues we cover.
And be sure to listen to Growth House Radio, a unique mix of music and easy-listening education features on end-of-life care. It's entertainment with a mission!
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Featured Books
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The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care
A practical new guide by Joanne Lynn, M.D. gives no-nonsense advice on how to improve your programs. You can read full-text extracts in our online edition.
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The Good Death
Marilyn Webb integrates case studies with analytical chapters on the legal, historical, and social aspects of dying.
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Palliative Care Ethics: A Companion For All Specialties
Many ethical dilemmas can arise in the field of palliative
care. The new second edition includes case studies that
illustrate common themes. Expanded sections include more
coverage of patient rights, rationing within the health
care system, terminally ill children, and more general
cancer care ethics.
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Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Handbook for Volunteer Service Managers
By Derek Doyle. Provides comprehensive, practical guidance on the responsibilities of those who lead, coordinate, and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and general hospitals. Covers selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ethical issues.
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The Needs of the Dying: A Guide For Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
A compassionate and practical look at the issues by David Kessler, M.D., an expert in the field.
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Terminal Illness: A Guide to Nursing Care
This text provides a nursing care approach to the problems and issues that arise when caring for patients with terminal cancer and other illnesses such as degenerative neurological disorders, AIDS and more.
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