The Eleventh Hour: A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death
The Eleventh Hour is the companion booklet to Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience. While Gone describes the dying process, The Eleventh Hour gives ideas for what to do, and say as well as how to care for the person who is approaching death.
Agencies/hospices put these two booklets together in their initial family packets to inform families on the stages of death and how to care for a loved one who is dying. These booklets meet Medicare requirements for consistent family education and have been shown to significantly improve CAHPS scores and family survey results.
The Eleventh Hour is a booklet that offers information, ideas and support for caregivers in the weeks, days, and hours before death and just after. Having this information inspires and empowers the caregiver while reducing fear.
The Eleventh Hour is used for volunteer training in Transitional, Vigil and No One Dies Alone programs, for hospitals, for nursing facilities, parish nursing and Hospice and Palliative Care agencies. Most of all, it is for families faced with caring for their loved one at end of life.
Like all of Barbara's booklets, The Eleventh Hour is written in large print and the information is conveyed in a simple, direct yet gentle manner.
This booklet is included in the End of Life Guideline Series.
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United StatesI have been using Barbra's materials since the early '70 as I was helping establish a Home care hospice. Since then, I continue to go back to the Gone from My Sight. I can not tell you the 100's of families over the years who have felt blessed with Barbara's kind, gentle approaches. I certainly will be using as a volunteer in my end of life work. Thanks again for all your help and caring.
United StatesI keep giving away my books. Now my dad is dying in a nursing home from Covid and I needed to be more present and your books bring one into the experience which we will all do at some point.
Sara, I am behind in responding to our product reviews. It is July 17 and your father may be gone by now. If he is my thoughts and blessings are with you during this challenging time. My hope is you were with him but my feeling is you probably weren’t because of covid and nursing home policies. You may find my booklet My Friend, I Care helpful in learning how to live with your grief. Grief is hard work and it will be harder now with covid. You might write your father a letter and put all your thoughts and feelings on paper. Write from your heart and tears then burn the letter and scatter the ashes. Blessings! Barbara
United StatesI find the information very helpful and have signed up for her newsletter as well. The author's insight is calmly expressed and answers hard questions about dying.
United StatesWe use this tool in our hospice program, giving it to each patient at admission of care.
United StatesWith her gentle guidance, Ms. Karnes outlines what is happening when someone you love dies. My mother was a strong atheist - and well-prepared for her death. She wrote her own obit and dictated to me two weeks before she died what she wanted for her memorial service. But, she was also hoping to see her beloved second husband who died 15 years before her - I told her to "go find him" in her final moments. A wonderful and invaluable resource.
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