Books, Blogs & Podcasts on Hospice, Grief, and End-of-Life

These books, blogs and podcasts below are directly recommended by Allison, our Director of Education and Community Support at Minnesota Hospice. She selected them for people learning about hospice, caring for someone they love, or living with grief.

Books

• Callanan, M., & Kelley, P. (1992).  Final gifts: Understanding the special awareness, needs, and communications of the dying.  Simon & Schuster.
• Doka, K. J. (Ed.) (2016). Living with grief when illness is prolonged.  Taylor & Francis.
• Dunn, H. (2016).  Hard choices for loving people: CPR, feeding tubes, palliative care, comfort measures, and the patient with a serious illness (6^th).  Quality of Life Publishing Company.
• Gawande, A. (2017).  Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end.
• Schreiber, M. J., & Breitenbucher, C. (2022).  My two Elaines: Learning, coping, and surviving as an Alzheimer’s caregiver.  Harper Horizon.
• Byock, I. (2014).  The four things that matter most: A book about living.  Atria Books; Simon and Schuster.

Blogs

• Caregiver Warrior (Susanne White)

Podcasts

• All things Hospice (By our very own Thanatologist Allison Oja, MS, CT, MHt)
• End-of-Life University (Dr. Karen Wyatt)
• Mindfulness and Grief (Heather Stang)
• Widow Cast (Joann Filomena)
• What’s Your Grief (Eleanor Haley & Lisa Williams)
• Terrible, Thanks for Asking (Nora McInerny)
• Daughterhood the Podcast (Rosanne Corcoran)
• Happy Healthy Caregiver (Elizabeth Miller)
• AlzAuthors: Untangling Alzheimer’s & Dementia (Marianne Sciucco)
• Love Your Caregiving Life (Charlotte Bayala)
• People with Parents (Leighann Lord)
• Dementia Care Partner Talk Show with Teepa Snow (Teepa Snow & Greg Phelps)