Long Days, Last Days . . . a down-to-earth guide for those at the bedside

Called to the side of someone critically or chronically ill, what can you do, what will you say? With short alphabetical entries on 200 topics (Checklists, Mutual Peril, Sex, Waiting), LDLD advises on emergency and perplexity, noise and loss. Treating the full ecology of the bedside--its calendar and ethics, its terrain and emotional climate--LDLD empowers all caregivers in days tedious or trying.