Changing The Way We Die: Compassionate End-Of-Life Care And The Hospice Movement was written by journalists, Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel. The two women also write a blog of the same title for the magazine Psychology Today . After vastly different experiences in the end of life care received by each author's respective father, they decided to explore hospice as a movement and a service. The book itself is divided into several sections that explore different aspects of the movement. The first section explores the history of hospice both as a movement and a service provided for the dying and their families and caregivers. This section recounts how the movement took hold in mid-twentieth century America as well as the differences between hospice in America and hospice in England where the first hospice in that country provided the spring board for its sister movement in the U.S. It also addresses the challenges and struggles of the early movement to gain...
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