Book Title: A Hospital Bed at Home

Subtitle: Family stories of caregiving from diagnosis to death

Authors: Janene Carey and Carey Janene

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Book Description: A Hospital Bed at Home is a linked collection of true stories about the experience of being a carer during the weeks, months and years that can stretch between the day someone you love is diagnosed with an incurable, fatal disease and the day of his or her death.

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Book Description

A Hospital Bed at Home is a linked collection of true stories about the experience of being a carer during the weeks, months and years that can stretch between the day someone you love is diagnosed with an incurable, fatal disease and the day of his or her death.

Couples facing separation after forty years together; a workaholic with three small children and a dying, angry wife; an Irish immigrant called home to nurse an ailing father who cannot, or will not, eat; a Buddhist couple striving for serene acceptance of a brain tumour… The patients and carers profiled in these stories bring to their challenging situations the gamut of typically human strengths and weaknesses, plus all the baggage of their pre-existing relationships.

The narratives are intensely personal and biographical, but the insights and information they contain about illness, caregiving and dying at home have profound and general relevance. The author’s reflections on these topics are woven throughout, linking the individual stories and concluding with a gritty memoir about caring for her own mother, an anxious optimist who was ravaged by cancer.

Authors

Janene Carey and Carey Janene

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A Hospital Bed at Home Copyright © 2014 by Janene Carey. All Rights Reserved.

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Title
A Hospital Bed at Home
Authors
Janene Carey and Carey Janene
License

Tablelands Press
5 Highlands Rd Dumaresq NSW 2350
Copyright © Janene Carey 2014
Except as permitted under the Australian Copyright Act no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written approval of the publisher.
The excerpt from Quest for Life by Petrea King is reprinted by permission of Random House Australia. Copyright © Petrea King 1991
Quotes from David Rieff are used by permission of the author and The Wylie Agency.
‘Retreat to the castle’ was previously published in Australian Book Review, June 2010, pp. 51-57, after being shortlisted for the Calibre Prize.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Carey, Janene Patricia
A hospital bed at home : family stories of caregiving from diagnosis to death / Janene Carey.
ISBN 9780992423605 (paperback)
ISBN 9780992423612 (ebook : Kindle)
ISBN 9780992423629 (ebook : epub)
Terminal care–Australia–Anecdotes.
Caregivers–Australia–Anecdotes.
Terminally ill–Australia–Death.
Palliative treatment–Australia.
Dewey Number: 362.1750994
Cover design: Trish Donald
Cover photo: theoccasionalgardener.com
This book was produced using PressBooks.com with PDF rendering by Prince XML. Typefaces are Cinzel and Sorts Mill Goudy.
Author website: www.janenecarey.com

Publisher
Tablelands Press