This book draws together the learning of a wide range of social workers and other professionals engaged in end of life care who recognise that dying is essentially a social experience and want to tailor a personal, professional and societal response accordingly.
Wie man bis zuletzt lacht und dem Tod mit Tusche ein wenig von seinem Schrecken nimmt, zeigt dieser Cartoonband über Humor am Krankenbett und in der Palliative Care.
Eine Brücke bauen – für einen gemeinsamen WegWie schaffe ich als Therapeut die Basis für eine vertrauensvolle, hilfreiche Beziehung – und wie gestalte ich den dafür notwendigen psychoonkologischen Dialog?
This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK.
Despite the fact that most palliative care educators are involved in teaching, there is little literature devoted to education specifically within palliative care.
Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families.
Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life.
This book details a five-phase model of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation, exploring how it can be understood as a threshold experience with the potential to offer profound emotional renewal.
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.
Informal caregivers - family members, friends, and other loved ones - are an essential, uncompensated and significantly burdened extension of the healthcare team.
Diese Buchreihe wird in Kooperation mit der Abteilung Palliative Care und OrganisationsEthik/IFF Wien der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt herausgegeben.
This book covers all essential evidence on perioperative care and anesthetic concerns for cancer surgeries, including the evaluation and assessment of patients' schedule for cancer surgeries, perioperative anesthetic management of various cancers, perioperative analgesia for cancer surgeries, and issues related to inoperable cancers.
This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older people with communication and swallowing difficulties.
Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Professional palliative care not only involves providing demanding medical and nursing care for clients, but is also emotionally burdensome for everyone involved.
The use of cannabinoid-based medicines (CBM), and cannabis in particular, has risen steadily among cancer and palliative care patients over the last few years.
Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.
Case Studies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care uses a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with an important learning tool to improve critical thinking skills and encourage discussion toward improving experiences for patients and their families.
The book offers a comprehensive overview of deglutition disorders and of dysphagia treatment, presenting a review of the main instruments for evaluating and treating dysphagia.
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview on palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies and other serious blood disorders.
Written by experienced authorities from around the world giving a wider international perspective on palliative nursing, this substantially expanded new edition has been specifically adapted to reflect working practices within the NHS.
Spiritual Care beinhaltet eine existenzielle Auseinandersetzung, die jenseits von Schmerztherapie und Symptomkontrolle Sinn und Bedeutung des Todes für das menschliche Leben thematisiert.
This book summarizes evidence on frailty and ageing, how this may impact patient outcomes and how frailty can be assessed, managed and incorporated in the decision-making process for older patients with cancer.
This ';comfortingthoughtful' (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of lifefrom resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breathby the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door is a ';roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance' (The Boston Globe).
Hohe Kompetenz und fundiertes Wissen in der PalliativmedizinDie Palliativmedizin versteht sich als integrative Disziplin, die lange vor dem Lebensende und über den Tod hinaus zum Einsatz kommt.
