The Journey Home
Stories of Compassion and Inspiration from AseraCare
Hospice
As a unique guide to coping with life-limiting illness, The
Journey Home, Stories of Compassion and Inspiration from AseraCare
Hospice is a book that provides a resource for patients,
families and physicians who struggle with how and when to discuss
the hospice option.
The book was authored by K.T. Anders and John Ross, and
published by AseraCare Hospice. It offers a firsthand look at the
benefits of hospice through more than 60 personal accounts of
AseraCare patients. The book guides patients and family members
through the decision-making process, the roles of the care team
and, ultimately, bereavement.
The book provides examples of how to broach the hospice
conversation and how to present it as a positive option. It
reinforces the perspective of hospice as a valuable component of
care delivered to a patient with terminal illness.
Anders, the book’s author, knew hospice and its benefits well.
Anders’ mother had undergone hospice, and unbeknownst to AseraCare,
Anders herself was seeking treatment for a terminal illness that
eventually brought her to hospice. Her husband wrote the final
chapter dealing with bereavement after Anders passed away. With
this book, Anders’ journey has created a lasting body of knowledge
on which others can draw.