Palliative medicine

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

With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects - directly or indirectly - millions of people across the world.

Now in paperback, the Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care integrates clinical wisdom with empirical findings.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr.

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

Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to address social work practice in the field of brain injury (BI).

This book guides the physician through the daunting communication challenges of explaining life-threatening illness to patients and families.

Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards is a comprehensive, evidence-based book of flashcards for clinicians caring for patients who require hospice and palliative care and supportive care.

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

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

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.

Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness.

Now in its tenth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine has been fully revised, with five new authors on the writing team bringing content fresh from the bedside.

Emerging as a new sub-specialization within the hospitalist community, the neurosurgery hospitalist provides preoperative risk stratification, advises on managing pre- and postoperative complications, and helps doctors make decisions about when to involve specialists other than neurosurgeons.

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

Accessible and instructive,Palliative Careguides and inspires health social workers to incorporate palliative care principles into their current clinical practice.

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

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services.

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services.

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

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.

This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life.

As humanitarian aid organizations have evolved, there is a growing recognition that incorporating palliative care into aid efforts is an essential part of providing the best care possible.

The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world.

Accessible and instructive,Palliative Careguides and inspires health social workers to incorporate palliative care principles into their current clinical practice.

This volume speaks to the issue of occupational therapy practice with the patient in pain.

Death is inevitable, dying badly is not.

Improved cancer treatment and survival rates have resulted in a growing number of cancer survivors who live years, and even decades, after their cancer diagnosis.

Within the context of long-range planning, this book examines the changing responsibilities of the state and family toward elders in different societies around the world.

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

In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care.

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders.

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

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

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

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.

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.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

Care home workers increasingly work with people nearing the end of their lives, including people with medically complex conditions.

As cancer treatment has evolved toward precision medicine, psychosocial research and practices for cancer patients and their family members have also raised awareness of the need for a personalized, patient-focused, family-oriented approach in the Psycho-Oncology field.

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

This book examines the policies, challenges, and quality of life issues in palliative care and nursing home care facilities.

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "e;meaning"e; in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population.

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.

Everyone experiences pain, whether it's emotional or physical, chronic or acute.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the psychological principles on which they are based, and the key development and evaluation issues relevant to their successful intervention.

Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines.

The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care"e;The study/learning questions at the end of each chapter make this book an excellent resource for both faculty who wish to test knowledge, and individual learners who wish to assess their own learning.

Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-speciality of cardiology.