Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual-reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning.
This practical, thought-provoking guide provides the unemotional, clear, and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting - a pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach.
This practical, thought-provoking guide provides the unemotional, clear, and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting - a pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach.
La atención paliativa implica un sistema de gestión y educación sanitaria y social para personas con enfermedades crónicas, complejas, en situación avanzada y progresiva, con un sustrato ético que incluye valores fundamentales tales como la dignidad, solidaridad, el servicio amoroso, respeto a la autonomía, la espiritualidad y la esperanza.
Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual-reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning.
This book is a guide to help clinicians caring for people with advanced heart failure develop a team approach for a group of people who, despite the increased awareness, remains disadvantaged in accessing support to help them live with, and support them as they die from, this serious illness.
Dieses Buch erörtert die Rolle chronischer Erkrankungen als entscheidende Herausforderung für die Zukunft der Medizin in einer Zeit alternder Bevölkerungen und der stetigen Zunahme nicht übertragbarer Begleiterkrankungen.
Dieses Buch erörtert die Rolle chronischer Erkrankungen als entscheidende Herausforderung für die Zukunft der Medizin in einer Zeit alternder Bevölkerungen und der stetigen Zunahme nicht übertragbarer Begleiterkrankungen.
This book is a guide to help clinicians caring for people with advanced heart failure develop a team approach for a group of people who, despite the increased awareness, remains disadvantaged in accessing support to help them live with, and support them as they die from, this serious illness.
Eine optimale Betreuung am Lebensende erfordert einen engen Austausch zwischen Medizin, Pflege, dem psychosozialen Bereich, der Seelsorge und allen anderen beteiligten Berufsgruppen.
Harnessing hope is fundamental to adapting to a chronic illness or palliative illness, and this fascinating book provides a new framework that will enable physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals to engage with patients to create better interactions and outcomes for rehabilitation.
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.
Harnessing hope is fundamental to adapting to a chronic illness or palliative illness, and this fascinating book provides a new framework that will enable physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals to engage with patients to create better interactions and outcomes for rehabilitation.
This textbook is an essential resource for life care planners in understanding and assessing a range of medical disabilities, life care planning as a health care service delivery practice, certification under the International Commission on Health Care Certification, and the path to rehabilitation for mild to catastrophic injuries.
This book explores the unique challenges of disenfranchisement faced by Christian chaplains working within the secular and pluralistic context of contemporary healthcare.
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary domain of eHealth - one of the most important recent developments in healthcare.
This book explores the unique challenges of disenfranchisement faced by Christian chaplains working within the secular and pluralistic context of contemporary healthcare.
This textbook is an essential resource for life care planners in understanding and assessing a range of medical disabilities, life care planning as a health care service delivery practice, certification under the International Commission on Health Care Certification, and the path to rehabilitation for mild to catastrophic injuries.
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.
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.
Refreshingly forthright New York Times | Extraordinary Laura Lynne Jackson | Beautifully written Katy Butler | Tender and transformative Christie Tate | Meaningful and sublime Theresa BrownWhat can life s final moments teach us about living well today?
A book for men and women from middle age to advanced years who have suddenly and unexpectedly become confronted with the huge effects that the male prostate can have on the body.
A practicing music thanatologist provides an insider's history of this remarkable profession, which combines music, medicine, and spirituality to help the terminally ill and their families face the end of life.
Eine optimale Betreuung am Lebensende erfordert einen engen Austausch zwischen Medizin, Pflege, dem psychosozialen Bereich, der Seelsorge und allen anderen beteiligten Berufsgruppen.
ACT at the End is based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and while it has a grounding in research, it is also a hands-on clinical guide for those working with people at a tricky and complex time of life.
A widow's moving and often funny account of her late husband's Motor Neurone DiseaseDeals with the experience of attending the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in SwitzerlandPublished as the UK and France consider introducing assisted dying laws
ACT at the End is based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and while it has a grounding in research, it is also a hands-on clinical guide for those working with people at a tricky and complex time of life.
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview on palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies and other serious blood disorders.
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview on palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies and other serious blood disorders.
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.
