Palliative medicine

Pediatric Palliative Care: A Model for Exemplary Practice lays out a road map for health-care providers interested in optimizing care for seriously ill children and their families.

Giving voice to the perspectives of children and families with lived experience of children's palliative care, Music Therapy in Children's Palliative Care: Collaborative Family and Practitioner Voices explores the integral role of music therapy and its benefits for supporting child and family wellbeing within a range of children's palliative care settings.

Frail older people now contribute the majority of the acute emergency take both medical and surgical.

Frail older people now contribute the majority of the acute emergency take both medical and surgical.

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement.

Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement.

This concise, introductory handbook discusses the basic principles of medical ethics, and includes practical, realistic guidance on how to evaluate and manage common ethical problems, focusing on the care of elderly patients Typical scenarios faced in clinical practice, such as issues of mental capacity and consent, resuscitation, near death decisions, quality of life, and health care expenditure, are discussed

This concise, introductory handbook discusses the basic principles of medical ethics, and includes practical, realistic guidance on how to evaluate and manage common ethical problems, focusing on the care of elderly patients Typical scenarios faced in clinical practice, such as issues of mental capacity and consent, resuscitation, near death decisions, quality of life, and health care expenditure, are discussed

The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by.

The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by.

Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome.

Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome.

This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement.

This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement.

Understanding Young Onset Dementia provides a state-of-the-art overview of approaches to care and evaluation for people with young onset dementia.

Understanding Young Onset Dementia provides a state-of-the-art overview of approaches to care and evaluation for people with young onset dementia.

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.

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.

Living with Uncertainty gives a broad perspective on the complexities and challenges of the practice of end-of-life care, as well as the perceived benefits and limitations of medical intervention.

Living with Uncertainty gives a broad perspective on the complexities and challenges of the practice of end-of-life care, as well as the perceived benefits and limitations of medical intervention.

Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care presents a model for effective single-session therapy.

Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care presents a model for effective single-session therapy.

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.

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.

Death strips away all of the superficial and mundane details of living and leaves behind life's bare essentials.

This book is comprised of extensive reviews and instructional chapters that discuss the quality of life in several aspects of cancer.

Death strips away all of the superficial and mundane details of living and leaves behind life's bare essentials.

This book is comprised of extensive reviews and instructional chapters that discuss the quality of life in several aspects of cancer.

The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy is a powerful account of love and death within a psychotherapeutic relationship.

The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy is a powerful account of love and death within a psychotherapeutic relationship.

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.

In eight innovative sessions, Henderson, Hanson, and Reynolds provide sage advice, numerous case studies, a wide variety of assessment tools, intructional guidelines, and practical exercises to educate nursing home staff about care of the dying.

This volume demonstrates how hospice care leads to improved quality of life for patients with terminal dementia and their families.

In "e;A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying"e; Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, a physician and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, offer insights to help medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and others become more aware of the different stages in the dying process and learn how to communicate more effectively with patients and their families.

Sterben gehört zum Leben.

Author Tom Preston, MD, and his terminally ill patients and their families often face the controversial predicament of how to die when suffering has been medically extended.

This book describes the current state of the art in the field of palliative care in children and adults.

This evidence-based text brings together the theory and practice of palliative care.

This book provides an up to date reference for healthcare professionals working in palliative care.

Now in its second edition, this is the only book on occupational therapy in oncology and palliative care.

What does supportive oncology do that palliative care doesn't already do?

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies.

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies.

Individuals and families face challenges at the end of life that can vary significantly depending on social and cultural contexts, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death.

Individuals and families face challenges at the end of life that can vary significantly depending on social and cultural contexts, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death.

This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary.

Little has been written about psychotherapy with the seriously physically ill and this book seeks to remedy that.

Though there has been much written about dying and bereavement in recent years, the particular stress of terminal illness in childhood - as it affects both the families and the professionals - is only beginning to be better understood.

This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary.