Andrew Bibby
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
Preface by Margaret Forster
1999

£5.99 + p&p, 96 pp
B/w illus
ISBN 978 0 903319 86 7
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The hospice movement has been an impressive success in Britain, with over 200 hospices now established. Their aim is to provide complete care for patients with a terminal illness and to make the last days of life as dignifed as possible. This book describes an innovative community-based hospice which focuses its operation not on a building but rather on providing a nursing and medical service to terminally ill patients in their own homes. The West Cumbria Hospice at Home, which has been developed to serve the scattered towns and villages of the Cumbrian coastal plain, has been built up through the dedicated voluntary efforts of many people in the community. It provides an exemplary model for other communities to emulate – whether rural or urban.

‘It is, I am convinced, a model for the future, giving as it does both the dying and the carers confidence and support of the kind they need.’ Margaret Forster

Andrew Bibby is a writer and journalist whose regularly work appears in national newspapers and magazines. His books include Teleworking: Thirteen journeys to the future of work (1995) and, with Saul Becker, Young Carers in Their Own Words (2000), both published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.