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!
|
Featured Books
[ Visit the bookstore ]
|
The Good Death
Marilyn Webb integrates case studies with analytical chapters on the legal, historical, and social aspects of dying.
|
Palliative Care Ethics: A Companion For All Specialties
![book cover](books/covers/palliative_care_ethics.jpg) 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.
|
|
|
Terminal Illness: A Guide to Nursing Care
![book cover](books/covers/kemp.jpg) 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.
|
|