When Mom or Dad Is on Hospice:

One phone call, and your whole life rearranges itself around a single word: hospice. You still have a job, a family, maybe children at home. Now you are also learning medications, talking with nurses, and watching your mom or dad change week by week.

Written by a hospice nurse practitioner who has sat with hundreds of families, this book walks adult children through every stage, from the first conversation about hospice to the weeks after a parent dies. It is honest, practical, and kind, and it was written for people with very little time.

Inside this ebook

• What hospice provides, and what it does not

• Balancing work, children, marriage, and caregiving

• Sharing the load with brothers and sisters

• Managing the guilt that follows every adult child

• Hard conversations, and how to begin them

• Preparing your children to lose a grandparent

• The final days, and finding your way afterward

Who it is for: Sons and daughters with a parent on hospice, whether you are the main caregiver, one of several siblings, or helping from a distance.