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Among Friends

Hospice Care for the Person with AIDS
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This valuable guide shows how hospice can provide compassionate, palliative care to meet the medical, psychological, and spiritual needs of persons with AIDS and those who love them; it offers a detailed discussion of the history and philosophy of hospice care; the medical challenges and psychological issues involved in the treatment of AIDS patients during the painful, debilitating final stages of the disease; and the costs of medical and pain-relieving care. Hospice is shown to be more attuned to the special needs of AIDS patients as well as far more cost-effective in most cases than acute-care hospitals. Patients loved ones, and all advocates of the rights and dignity of persons with AIDS will find "Among Friends" an indispensable resource.
Robert W. Buckingham, Doctor of Public Health, is Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan-Flint. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and is the former founding Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. A graduate of Yale School of Medicine, Buckingham is a pioneer in development of hospice programs in the United States and worldwide, and he has established clinics and orphanages in Thailand, Africa, and Honduras. He is author of eleven books, including The Handbook of Hospice Care; Among Friends: Hospice Care for the Person with AIDS; and I'm Pregnant, Now What Do I Do?. Buckingham received the 2014 Nelson Mandela Award for Academic Leadership presented by Harvard University, and he was honored by the Russian Institute of Health with the 2006 Ivanosky Prize for Humanitarian Medicine for work with people with HIV and AIDS.
Among Friends will prove increasingly meaningful to all those whose lives have been touched by AIDS." -- American Foundation for AIDS Research "This is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, AIDS patients and concerned loved ones." -- Library Journal
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