What hospices tell us after using our booklets with their patients and families:
(We'd like to hear your comments! Please tell us what you think.)

One of our QAPI/PIPs was to increase caregiver confidence. We used A Different Season for family education…we noted improved responses. Families need reinforcement of verbal teaching and this is an excellent tool. Thank you for developing this wonderful booklet —a WI hospice

We are using Considering Comfort Care in a folder that we are giving out to potential patients who contact us, our physicians and local pastors. Many have said that it is an excellent resource for them—a TX hospice

Like another staff member you can leave with the family!—an AR hospice

The booklets are great! They are easy for patients and families to read and have been a great addition to our program—a PA hospice

I carry a stack [of A Different Season] in my car. It’s the best. –A North Carolina Hospice MD

This [A Different Season] was so helpful to me, I can’t imagine having been without it—an AR family

A very clearly written little booklet. The topics are right on track with what our patients & families are going through—a WA hospice

We find your booklets very helpful in sharing the Hospice journey with our families. They are great—a MO hospice

[The Memory Keeper] I heard stories I’d never heard my Mom tell —an AR family

The booklets are great! They are easy for patients and families to read and have been a great addition to our program—a PA hospice

This was so helpful to me, I can’t imagine having been without it—an AR family

A very clearly written little booklet. The topics are right on track with what our patients & families are going through—a WA hospice

We love your booklets! They explain hospice in a positive way and dispel many myths—an IA hospice

Considering Comfort Care has been very helpful for evaluation-only visits and community education—a AZ hospice

We sent copies [Considering Comfort Care] to every provider in our coverage area because it introduces hospice so well—a PA hospice

No one could read this booklet [Considering Comfort Care] and still be opposed to hospice—it’s written that gently and that well—a CA hospice

We enjoy your booklets; they are well-written and easy to read and understand—a WY hospice

We're having our volunteers use The Memory Keeper with patients. They love it! – A Washington Hospice

We are ordering a copy of Considering Comfort Care for every physician in our coverage area...we've never seen a more positive way to educate our medical community. —A Community-Outreach Representative at a California Hospice

These are the best of their kind. –A Colorado Hospice Executive Director

We use them with every admission…makes a difficult time easier for families to understand—A TX hospice

Caregivers love it—a NM hospice

The book covers everything that we want to cover with our patients, but with a softness. Great job!!—an IN hospice


What wonderful publications!  I wanted you to know that I am placing my first order today - I find all four very useful and informative. I know they will be a great compliment to our patient, family and community education materials.  Thanks for your efforts. –An Indiana Hospice

We find that families really respond to it. They won't give them back! —A Social Worker at an Arkansas Hospice

My hospice uses other materials, but I buy my own copies of A Different Season for patients because it's so much better. —A Social Worker at an Oklahoma hospice.

We love it! It answers the questions every hospice family has. —A Texas Hospice

Our recent Joint Commission Survey RN was very impressed with your booklet! –A North Carolina Hospice

You covered what the families need to know in 32 pages. You nailed it. –A Mississippi Hospice Director


Clearly and gently written by an experienced hospice nurse, this booklet explains hospice services, helps family caregivers understand comfort care, instructs and reassures caregivers, prepares families for the changes to come, and describes the end-of-life process. We highly recommend this booklet as an invaluable resource for caregivers and family members as well as for community outreach, volunteer training, support groups, physicians’ offices, and nursing home education. It has received tremendous praise as a helpful handout for hospice families. --Review by Compassion Books (www.compassionbooks.com)

The section on food and the explanation of comfort care is worth the price of the whole booklet. —A North Carolina Hospice

A nurse and I chip in out of our own pockets to buy these booklets for the families in our very, very small hospice. That's how good they are for families. —A Social Worker at an Alabama Hospice

We started using them in caregiver folders, but they are GREAT for community education. Please double our order. —A Michigan Hospice

We love them! —A New Mexico Hospice

If I’d had this booklet back when my Father was ill, it would have empowered our family to choose hospice instead of hopeless chemo. —Arkansas reader

So much easier to present to families than the booklet we used to have...even the title is less scary, so they read it. —An Arkansas Hospice

Families like it better than the binder of handouts we’d been using. I love the quotes from other hospice families. —A North Carolina Hospice

We’ve really enjoyed using the booklet. It touches on things the others don’t: food, family dynamics, pain control... —A Nebraska Hospice

The booklet is lovely...helpful and thoughtful information -- especially on the food issues which are often traumatic for families. --A Louisiana Hospice