Macmillan Nurses and church bereavement visitors, some hospice trained, will use this book: so, too, will "dippers in" and purchasers of bedside books, both before and after bereavement.' -Plus - Christian Council on Ageing 'I would recommend this book to professionals and non-professionals alike. It is thought provoking and insightful, yet because of the topics explored, tragic in places. It is a gentle reminder of the humanitarian aspects of caring for, and staying with, the dying in this increasingly medicalized world'. ...
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Macmillan Nurses and church bereavement visitors, some hospice trained, will use this book: so, too, will "dippers in" and purchasers of bedside books, both before and after bereavement.' -Plus - Christian Council on Ageing 'I would recommend this book to professionals and non-professionals alike. It is thought provoking and insightful, yet because of the topics explored, tragic in places. It is a gentle reminder of the humanitarian aspects of caring for, and staying with, the dying in this increasingly medicalized world'. - Palliative Medicine 'The poets, Hilary Elfick and David Head, both have connections with the hospice movement, and their poems tell us much about hospice philosophy and practice in care for the dying. I found the poems in which the dying speak for themselves the most moving: "I want a stay of execution The longer the better. I can wait. Let the guilty die. Not me. Not who I am." Poems about individual patients are interspersed with poems exploring connecting themes in the poets' lives. Patients, families and carers are all represented. This inclusiveness gives the book real power. Cythia Fuller's careful arrangement and selection of the poems moves the reader from the shock and denial of first diagnosis through acceptance (although not in all cases) of the inevitablilty of death. The experience of loss and painful sharpness of memory is captured in lines like: "What is grieving, but attending to the fact that you have gone?" Dr Andrew Hoy in his introduction suggests the book should be essential reading for professional carer, as well as for patients and families. After reading (and re-reading) Hilary Elfick's "Breaking the Thread" I can see why.' - Palliative Care Review 'The Poetry in Attending to the Fact was written by a hospice chaplain and a hospice trustee. They range over the human events and activities around death and dying, including the intimate and the undignified. Horror and pain aren't shirked, but yet bring dignity and compassion.' - Progress in Palliative Care 'It should be of interest to health and social care workers who operate in hospice or palliative care services, or indeed to any staff who want to gain some insight into the experience of supporting someone with a terminal condition... a useful reminder of the need for staff to recognize and reflect upon the deep emotions which can arise in this area of work.' - Care and Health Magazine 'The poems show the human side of care and are essential reading for those who wish to be critically reflective about the nature of care and their own insight within the caring process.' - Contact 'The poems range from sad to the inspirational, describing the humiliating indignities that accompany decline and death as well as the experience of caring for, parting from and staying with the dying. The poets have made an honest response to the people they have met and the experiences they have found themselves in. It will certainly add to limited resources available in this area.' - Methodist Recorder 'Unflinchingly honest and intimate, Elfick and Head find the words to express the inexpressible: not only the humiliating indignities that accompany human decline and death and the ambivalent feelings evoked by intimacy, but the experience of caring for, parting from, and staying with the dying.' - Sandra Bertman, Research Professor of Palliative Care, Boston University 'These poems show the reader the human side of care. They must be essential reading for professional carers as well as for patients and families.' - Andrew Hoy, Chairman of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland This inspirational collection of poetry explores one of the most difficult and painful subjects to make sense of in writing - what it is like to care for the dying and the dead. Drawing on the authors' own work in hospices, these poems take the reader on a journey that explores the experience of either supporting, or being, someone going through the
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