From the Book - Regular Print - First Scribner hardcover edition.
RESILIENCE: The wake-up call
Finding allies in preventive medicine
Getting to know the neighbors
Knowing your medical rights
SLOWING DOWN: When less is more
Finding allies in slow medicine, geriatrics, and a good HMO
Reducing screenings - Making peace with loss
ADAPTATION: A moment of truth
Mapping the future and making plans
Finding allies in occupational and physical therapy
Disaster-proofing daily life
Practicing interdependence
AWARENESS OF MORTALITY: The art of honest hope
Understanding the trajectory of your illness
Finding allies in palliative care
Reflecting on what gives your life meaning
HOUSE OF CARDS: If only someone had warned us
Finding allies in House call programs
Upgrading advance directives
Enjoying your red velvet cake
PREPARING FOR A GOOD DEATH: Making good use of the time you have left
Finding allies in hospice
Choosing the time of death
Loving, thanking, and forgiving - Getting help from your tribe
ACTIVE DYING: The tree needs to come down
This is what dying looks like
Preparing for a home death
Preparing in a nursing home
Giving care - The final hours
Humanizing a hospital death
Improvising rites of passage
Toward a new art of dying.
