Palliative medicine

Sexual Health, Fertility, and Relationships in Cancer Care provides clinical management guidelines for the impact of cancer and oncology treatments on sexual health, fertility and relationships.

Enter the world of organ transplantation and develop a new understanding of processes and techniques for working effectively with patients in this increasing medical population.

This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care and asks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject.

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States.

The first resource of its kind, Palliative and Serious Illness Patient Management for Physician Assistants provides a fundamental framework for physician assistants and physician associates to incorporate palliative care medicine, including end-of-life care, into their practice.

In this updated edition, the authors examine the issues of death and dying as a continuum, from death education and care of the dying to grief and bereavement.

Palliative Psychology provides clinical, evidence-based training in palliative and end of life care for clinical psychologists to accomplish specific therapeutic goals.

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully provides valuable insight into the experience of patients and families living with advanced cancer and describes a novel psychotherapeutic approach to help them live meaningfully, while also facing the threat of mortality.

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman As the population in western cultures ages, more people suffer chronic, ultimately life-limiting diseases and medical professionals need to be equipped to cope with the ever growing pressure of palliative care.

This book brings a fresh approach and conversation to the practice of professional supervision for human services by specifically articulating its often performed, but unnamed and under-explored therapeutic function.

The effective management of pain from cancer is a top priority for patients, carers and healthcare professionals, and has been the subject of extensive research.

Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field.

Clinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only with what clinicians do, but why.

This unique book is a first-of-its-kind resource that comprehensively covers each facet and challenge of providing optimal perinatal palliative care.

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.

Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of the seriously ill and dying.

Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987.

Die kurze, prägnante Frage-Antwort-Struktur beleuchtet das Gebiet der Palliativmedizin aus den verschiedenen Perspektiven von Angehörigen über Patienten bis zu denen der beteiligten Berufsgruppen und Ärzte.

This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can't self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a "e;Last Chance?

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.

Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style in their patients.

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.

Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most.

The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care, providing a compilation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Death, Dying and Palliative Care in Children and Young People: Perspectives from Health Psychology examines the issues relevant to children and young people living with serious illness and their families by taking a closer look at the literature and knowledge around the processes of care, health, well-being and development through a health psychology lens.

Nurses are positioned on healthcare's front line, intimately connected to individuals, families, and communities.

Oxford Case Histories in Oncology contains 30 well-structured cases from clinical practice, giving a comprehensive coverage of the diagnostic and management dilemmas in oncology.

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s.

Psychosomatische Medizin und Palliativmedizin weisen viele Parallelen auf: Das bio-psycho-soziale Modell der Psychosomatik findet seine Entsprechung im Total Pain- oder Total Suffering-Konzept der Palliativmedizin.

This book is a comprehensive summary of the recommendations for best practice, and current evidence, for physical activity and rehabilitation of functional deficits in individuals with end-stage diseases.

Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance.

Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing.

The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care returns for a third edition, maintaining the concise yet comprehensive format suited to the busy practitioner for quick access to key information, and fully updated to reflect changes in the palliative care landscape.

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.

Rooted in everyday hospital medicine, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians addresses the challenges of delivering complex care to patients living with serious illnesses.

This book analyzes the main topics of Palliative Care in Cardiac Intensive Care Units (CICU), from the changing epidemiology of patients admitted to the ICU, to the main clinical and ethical issues.

Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment.

Spiritual Care beinhaltet eine existenzielle Auseinandersetzung, die jenseits von Schmerztherapie und Symptomkontrolle Sinn und Bedeutung des Todes für das menschliche Leben thematisiert.

At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take - the journey of a loved one toward the end of life.

At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take - the journey of a loved one toward the end of life.

Embark on a Journey to Fortify Your Business in the Digital AgeAttention small business owners: The digital landscape is fraught with dangers, and the threat grows more sophisticated every day.

In deutschen Kliniken wird operiert, katheterisiert, bestrahlt und beatmet, was die Gebührenordnung hergibt – bei 1.

The Situation - A Radical Journey Thru Sisterhood is an intimate portrayal of two sisters, Carolyn and Lila, whose lives are deeply intertwined over forty years.

This handbook is an essential guide to caring for the community palliative care patient in relation to COVID-19, when the patient's preferred place of care is at home or the hospice.

This book isn't about dying.

Spätestens als das Bundesverfassungsgericht im Frühjahr 2020 in einem aufsehenerregenden Urteil das Recht des Einzelnen auf selbstbestimmtes Sterben hervorhob, entbrannte die Diskussion um die Sterbehilfe neu.

Ein etwas anderes Buch zum Thema, geschrieben von Stein Husebø - dem international bekannten Arzt, Autor und Publizisten.

Death is the destiny we all share, and this will not change.