Essential End-of-Life Resources for Home Care Professionals

As a home care professional, you play a pivotal role in recognizing and addressing the early signs of the dying process, which can begin months before death. Proper end-of-life education equips you to provide compassionate care, guide families, and collaborate effectively with hospice services.

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Essential End-of-Life Resources for Those Who Provide Care in Homes, Assisted Living, & Nursing Facilities

Because they are on the front lines and need to recognize early signs of the dying process.

As Caregivers, You Play a Pivotal Role

Proper end-of-life education equips you to provide compassionate care, guide families to make informed decisions, and support them in creating a meaningful and comforting experience as death approaches.

With over 30 million sold the "Little Blue Book" is the first, most beloved and widely used resource of its kind. Written by American hospice pioneer Barbara Karnes, RN, Gone From My Sight explains the signs of approaching death from disease and old age.
Booklet - Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience French Translation

Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience

$4.00

End of Life Guideline Series informs people on how to live with a life-threatening illness, what to expect when someone is dying, what to do to help, managing pain, how to address the fear of death and dying and how to grieve.


End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets

End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets

$16.00

Booklet - How Do I Know You? Dementia At The End Of Life - Caring for someone with dementia presents different challenges than caring for people with other health care issues. It doesn’t “play by the rules” that signify approaching death from disease or old age. This booklet outlines the issues and progress that a person with dementia will probably follow.
How Do I Know You? Dementia at the End of Life

How Do I Know You? Dementia at the End of Life

$4.00

“The Eleventh Hour” is the companion booklet to "Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience" together they have been shown to significantly improve CAHPS scores, family survey results and meet Medicare requirements for consistent family education. Agencies/hospices put these two booklets together in their initial family packets to inform families on the signs of approaching death and how to care for a loved one who is dying.
Booklet - The Eleventh Hour: A Caring Guideline For The Hours To Minutes Before Death

The Eleventh Hour: A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death

$4.00

“My Friend, I Care” is a booklet intended for the newly grieving. It addresses the normalcy of grieving and stages of grief while offering suggestions for moving forward into living. The grieving process is as foreign to us as death. The experience is forced upon us by life situations that have been beyond our control. We become angry, depressed, fearful and anxious. We do not know that all these feelings together represent grief; a normal, natural response to the loss of someone or something.
Booklet - My Friend, I Care: The Grief Experience in Spanish

My Friend, I Care: The Grief Experience

$4.00

There is much fear and misconception surrounding pain management at end of life. Pain at End of Life addresses, in fifth grade, non-medical terminology: pain as it relates to the dying process fear of overdosing and addiction standardized dosages around the clock administration laxatives uses of morphine sedation as it relates to dying supplemental therapies
Pain at End of Life: What You Need to Know About End of Life Comfort and Pain Management

Pain at End of Life: What You Need to Know About End of Life Comfort and Pain Management

$4.00

“A Time To Live” is literature for the newly diagnosed with a poor prognosis and/or the palliative care patient; for anyone faced with the unpredictability of their future due to living with a life threatening illness. It offers guidance for living and explains comfort control, nutrition, sleep, pain medications, overdosing and addiction possibilities as they relate to a serious illnesses as well as the fear of death that we all bring to this final experience.
Booklet - A Time To Live: Living With A Life-Threatening Illness

A Time to Live: Living with A Life-Threatening Illness

$4.00

Booklet - You Need Care Too: Self Care For The Professional Caregiver This booklet is filled with ideas and guidance for the nurse, social worker, nurse’s aide, chaplain, physician, end of life doula, or Eleventh Hour volunteer. Anyone who is immersed in the responsibilities of supporting, educating, and guiding a person and their family through the dying experience can find insight into making their work healthier.

You Need Care Too: Self Care for the Professional Caregiver

$4.00

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"We use ALL your books and booklets to train our caregivers and client Families on what to expect during the dying process, and how to best help our clients and their families through this difficult time in their lives.

Excellent source of information. Families are so happy to receive your booklets, as we give them to every family that is dealing with the end of life."

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Helpful, Clear, Brief, Straightforward! These great tools help our PCGs recognize when the dying process has begun and what to do to best support the patient. Many thanks Barbara.

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Get Your Essential End of Life Guideline Series

The End of Life Guideline Series prepares its readers for the natural, normal process of dying and grief. It is a compilation of five of our most popular hospice and palliative care books.

Empower Your Caregivers with The Caregiver Bundle

Are you an end-of-life caregiver looking for comprehensive support and resources?

Barbara Karnes, RN has created The End of Life Caregiver Bundle – a curated collection of essential tools to empower and guide you on your professional caregiving journey.

Get Dementia at End of Life Education Here

Caring for someone with dementia presents different challenges than caring for people with other health care issues.Dementia plays by its own rules. This booklet discusses the challenges in providing end of life care when dementia is the main diagnosis.