Welcome to Our Grief, End-of-Life & Caregiver Media Library
Featured Media
The Handbook of Thanatology, Third Edition: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement
A trusted resource in thanatology and death education, this handbook offers insight into death and dying, grief and bereavement, bereavement support, grief support, and hospice support and palliative care.
Dementia Practice Guidelines for Recreational Therapy: Treatment of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
Dementia Practice Guidelines for Recreational Therapy is an Alzheimer’s and dementia caregiving resource with caregiver support, dementia therapy activities, behavioral symptoms support, and compassionate health care guidance.
Lili's Caregiver's Guide
Caregiving often becomes a mix of logistics, emotions, and long-term responsibility. This guide offers practical support for managing daily needs, care coordination, and the personal toll that can accompany sustained caregiving. It helps caregivers feel more organized and less alone while advocating within healthcare systems and protecting their own well-being.
The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
This book brings hospice support and palliative care into focus through Dr. Byock's work with patients and families navigating serious illness and end-of-life planning. Written with both clinical observation and deep compassion, it examines clear communication, comfort-focused choices, and the family communication and advocacy that allows patients to approach the end of life with dignity and relief. The book speaks to patients, family members, and caregivers seeking a practical lens on quality of life at end of life - supporting them as patient advocates and family advocates working toward meaningful connection.
Your Caregiver Relationship Contract: How to navigate the minefield of new roles and expectations
A practical guide to caregiving relationships before resentment builds. Debra L. Hallisey helps families navigate caregiving conflict, set boundaries that guard against burnout, and coordinate in-home and geriatric support - bringing clearer communication and more compassionate care through serious illness and end of life.
Breathless: The Role of Compassion in Critical Care
A compassionate look at critical care during serious illness. Ronald Kotler shares how compassionate health care steadies families navigating ICU decisions near the end of life - strengthening their role as patient and family advocates through empathy and clear communication.
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
A foundational resource for grief support, hospice support and palliative care, and end-of-life planning, this book helps families and caregivers better understand the emotional realities of dying with greater honesty, compassion, and clarity.
Being My Mom’s Mom: A Journey Through Dementia from a Daughter’s Perspective
This memoir offers an honest look at caring for a parent as dementia progresses, especially when roles reverse and the emotional weight deepens over time. It shares moments of tenderness, exhaustion, humor, and heartbreak in a deeply relatable way.
Diagnosis Dementia: Your Guide for Eldercare Planning and Crisis Management
This book offers steady, practical guidance for families navigating Alzheimer's and dementia caregiving after a diagnosis, when decision making, dementia care planning, and deep emotions often arrive all at once. Drawing on the author's lived experience with her mother, it walks through eldercare planning, crisis management, and the layers of caregiver support families often piece together themselves — from in-home and geriatric support to coordinating with home health agencies and palliative care teams, and stepping into the role of patient or family advocate within compassionate health care. The book speaks to adult children, spouses, and close family members stepping into early end-of-life planning, helping them take steady steps forward as care needs change over time.
Breaking Alzheimer’s: A 15 Year Crusade to Expose the Cause and Deliver the Cure
This research-driven book explores scientific theories about Alzheimer’s and the author’s long-term effort to understand contributors to cognitive decline. It is written for readers who want a deeper dive into the science and emerging perspectives on prevention or treatment.
The End of Alzheimer’s Program: The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age
This book explores Alzheimer's and dementia caregiving through a structured cognitive health protocol, focusing on lifestyle and health factors that may influence cognitive decline. Drawing on Dr. Bredesen's research, it shares Alzheimer's prevention strategies and a holistic dementia care framework that touches on brain health aging, supportive interventions, and planning for progressive illness — content readers can engage with alongside compassionate health care from their professional team. The book speaks to readers, families, and caregiver support networks seeking proactive ways to think about brain health, care options, and quality-of-life goals.
Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer's Journey
When dementia changes the way someone communicates, it can also change how love is expressed and received. This book guides families through Alzheimer’s caregiving using the Five Love Languages framework, offering practical ways to stay connected through small, meaningful actions.