Palliative medicine

Belonging After Brain Injury: Relocating Dan explores the life of the author's brother who has dealt with the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for over four decades.

Collaborative Practice in Palliative Care explores how different professions work collaboratively across professional, institutional, social, and cultural boundaries to enhance palliative care.

In 22 Kapiteln fassen renommierte Autoren in diesem Buch den Wissensstand zur Chirurgie der Magenkarzinome und der Karzinome des gastroösophagealen Übergangs zusammen.

Volunteers have a long been involved in supporting the delivery of palliative care.

This thoughtful new book presents strategies for helping end-stage renal disease patients and their families deal with the psychosocial aspects of the chronic long-term illness.

More and more people, particularly the very elderly, are becoming interested in what is known as fasting to death - a method of ending their own lives in a self-determined way.

Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part of palliative care.

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Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care is the fifth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series.

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type.

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey.

Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, who are at risk or who are on the point of death.

Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying.

This book provides an easy, modern and practical way for physicians to approach the world of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV).

50 Studies Every Internist Should Know presents key studies that shape today's practice of internal medicine.

"e;At a time when there is considerable interest in the palliative care needs of people with advanced dementia, this 'tour de force' on the development/psycho-metric testing of 11 tools (all included) will be invaluable to both researchers and practitioners wanting to develop better care.

Perinatal hospice is a novel form of care for an unborn child who has been diagnosed with a significantly life-limiting condition.

Now fully revised and in its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Oncology has been the essential go-to guide for students and practitioners in oncology for over a decade.

Cancer is a deadly disease that puts not only physical and financial pressure on the patient but also even more psychological pressure.

Individuals with serious and incurable illnesses often require care that goes beyond the body.

Wie können wir Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung am Lebensende begleiten?

Wie können schwerst kranke oder sterbende Menschen durch einen Palliativdienst im Akutkrankenhaus besser versorgt werden?

Sterben bedeutet für viele Menschen: eine letzte große Lebenskrise muss bestanden werden.

The syringe driver is a simple and cost-effective method of delivering a continuous subcutaneous infusion (CSCI).

This is the first textbook to show how research using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods relates to improving health and social care practice.

Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family.

This book discusses how effective navigation requires a team approach to oncology care and should never be considered an "e;add-on"e; resource or service.

Portrait therapy reverses the traditional roles in art therapy, utilising Edith Kramer's concept of the art therapist's 'third hand' to collaboratively design and paint their clients' portraits.

Respiratory symptoms such as breathlessness and cough are common in patients with advancing and incurable disease.

This brand new edition pulls together the most up-to-date information on this complex, multidisciplinary area in a practical, user-friendly manner.

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.

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death - Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor.

Learn to handle the problems that Parkinson's patients faceThrough Parkinson's Disease and Quality of Life, you will discover common problem areas seen in patients with Parkinson's disease.

This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting.

Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety provides a brief set of clinical guidelines for handling clinical depression and anxiety in cancer patients.

An international panel of experts have contributed to create the first comprehensive guide to spiritual care focussing on the palliative care setting from neonatal to aged care, combining the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality research with practical applications for its introduction into patient care.

This much-needed book explores the issues and consequences of chronic pain in later life.

Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at school before gaining entry to Oxford University to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible.

None of the literature in the field of terminal care provides a full treatment of the laws, documents, and policies relating to the difficult issues arising at the end of life.

This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required.

This book comprehensively and critically discusses chronicity as a crucial challenge for the future of medicine in an era of aging populations and the steady growth of non-communicable comorbidities.

This book provides healthcare professionals with a practice theory for the care and management of patients who have been diagnosed with cancer.

This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world.

A great number of cancer patients will suffer some form of social, emotional or psychological distress and challenges as a result of the disease and its treatment.

Education of healthcare professionals is the cornerstone of specialist palliative services.

This book gives readers an understanding of the theoretical foundations of social support communication along with practical tools to ethically and justly connect with and support others in daily life.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.