Dying Well Prepared: Conversations and Choices for Terminal Patients by Alan Bingham, published by Outskirts Press

Dying Well Prepared: Conversations and Choices for Terminal Patients

by Alan Bingham

Dying Well Prepared: Conversations and Choices for Terminal Patients

by Alan Bingham

Published Oct 14, 2016
176 Pages
6 x 9 Black & White Paperback
Genre: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement

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Book Details

When faced with limited life expectancy how do you plan your time to best advantage?

The news of limited life expectancy is always a surprise, even when we think we know it. What do you need to know to plan the last months of life to manage your time as best you can? How do you share this information with loved ones, how do you engage them and how can you be sure your wishes are followed when you can no longer supervise them? This is a guide book, it covers issues starting at understanding the options to explaining them and managing your time and legacy.

About the Author

Alan Bingham

Alan Bingham is a retired hospice and palliative care executive who has spent many hours with terminal patients and their families. A management graduate with a liberal arts background in philosophy he spent most of his career in healthcare informatics, working on HIPAA (starting with its genesis in the Kennedy Kassebaum Bill), developing medical records systems, becoming a HIPAA compliance officer and an Ombudsman working in nursing homes. An Australian who now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts he is active in his community.