Throughout the course of our lives we will experience the deterioration of a loved one due to illness or aging. This may cause us to make a choice of how and where we choose our loved one to die. Authors, Carolyn Jaffe and Carol H. Ehrlich, in their book All Kinds of Love, illustrate how the relationships between doctors, patients", family, friends, hospice volunteers, and hospice nurses all play an important role during he patients last days as they try to reach a "good death". In the book"s foreword, Rabbi Earl A. Grollman comments on Jaffe"s history of nursing experience...
coping with dying patients classes in the medical curriculum, because we cannot truly expect our medical staff to respond appropriately to everyone"s needs without offending certain religious and cultural beliefs if we do not help them take a step in the right direction. In summary, my overall opinion of this book All Kinds of Love: Experiencing Hospice, by Carolyn Jaffe and Carol H. Ehrlich was excellent. This book challenged my morals and changed my views about in home care. It"s reassuring that this kind of care is available not only for myself, but also for the people I love.