Terminal Care category: 140 books
Physical Aspects of Care
Pain and Gastrointestinal Symptoms
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care. Palliative care is also characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach. Nurses are...
Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care
Needs, Strategies, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients’and families’concerns about nutrition and hydration. Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care is a comprehensive resource that provides hands-on practical information that readers can use in everyday...
by Harold G Koenig, Junietta B Mccall
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Through firsthand accounts and research, Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly focuses on the education, training, and support of individuals who care for the elderly. This book provides caregivers with methods to cope with grief and loss and will help educators design programs that meet the...
Multifaith Care for Sick and Dying Children and their Families
A Multi-disciplinary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths? What, in the context of the young person's faith, might it be helpful to know to support the child and the family, improve care, communicate sensitively and avoid causing offence?
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by Suzanne Goldhirsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by...
Good Practices in Palliative Care
A Psychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A team of two practitioners in psychosocial palliative care and an academic have drawn together the work of twenty-eight highly experienced practitioners. Good Practices in Palliative Care : a psychosocial perspective provides detailed descriptions of innovatory practices and how they were developed,...
Bereavement Care
A New Look at Hospice and Community Based Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current bereavement care practices and key concerns of care providers. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, interests, and perspectives from divergent disciplines and clinical experiences, the contributing authors explore theories and constructs that...
When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients
A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
As a nurse or palliative caregiver, do you want to take better care of terminally ill patients, their loved ones, and yourself? Would you like to be empowered under difficult circumstances and feel more comfortable about what to say when providing palliative care?Based on thirty years of experience...
LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care
A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care delivery or their programs with LGBTQ-inclusive care. Anchored in the evidence, extensively referenced, and written in clear, easy-to-understand language, LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care...
by Howard Brody
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores...
Compassion
The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part of palliative care. In this ground-breaking book, international experts give their critical thoughts on the essence and role of compassion, in both palliative and hospice...
Heart Failure
From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible. Failure to address this aspect of care has serious consequences for patients, their families, clinicians and the use of health resources. Heart Failure: From Advanced Disease to Bereavement illustrates the complexity...
by Donna Infeld, Audrey K Gordon, Bernice C Harper
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Hospice Care and Cultural Diversity captures the richness and differences that make up the United States and its culture. This book shows you the complex issues arising from work with patients of a different culture and encourages research in hospices which support culturally innovative programs....
Ethics in Palliative Care
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when patients refuse treatments likely to be beneficial, or demand treatments not likely to be? Who makes medical decisions...