Palliative medicine

This easy-to-read, practical guide distils and compiles all the disparate literature on cancer into one succinct volume.

Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr.

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life.

This sensitive and compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life and their loved ones, as well as the professionals who work with them, with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death and dying.

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

This book is intended for all those who not only have to give bad news but who are also keen to give as much help and support as possible to partners and families - both immediately and during remission relapse terminal illness dying or grieving.

A New Approach to Dementia: Examining Sensory and Perceptual Impairment is a groundbreaking work which highlights the non-memory impairments of the dementias to improve both early recognition of dementia and clinical diagnosis, as well as interventions and care.

The first volume in the "e;What Do I Do Now?

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 study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise.

This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature.

This textbook, Radiation Oncology in Palliative Cancer Care, represents the full evolution of radiation therapy, and of oncology in general.

A case-based approach to the intensive care medicine curriculum, with 48 case studies linking core knowledge to clinical context.

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

Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments.

Viele Menschen wunschen am Ende ihres Lebens, zuhause sterben zu konnen.

This landmark text is the key resource for nurses working in the field of palliative care.

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.

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.

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

Caring for the Family Caregiver examines the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the family caregiver in chronic illness, including health literacy, palliative care, and health outcomes, through the prism of communication.

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.

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

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

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness.

Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority.

Here is one of the few books that elucidates the wide range and complexity of special concerns intrinsic to the assessment of terminally ill patients and their families.

Over a period of almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end of life care in the United States.

Advances in medical science and technology are saving the lives of more children worldwide than ever.

This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

The importance of palliative care for children facing life threatening illness and their families is now widely acknowledged as an essential part of care, which should be available to all children and families, throughout the child's illness and at the end of life.

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

This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older people with communication and swallowing difficulties.

Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families.

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

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

Even for the most experienced healthcare professional, managing the last few days of life can be difficult.

How do people face life-limiting illness and death?

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.

The care of patients with advanced and terminal illness can be extremely rewarding but often causes professionals a considerable amount of discomfort.

A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting.

Fully updated for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Neurology is the definitive guide for all those working in neurology and neurosurgery.

IThe Edge of Medicine/I tells the stories of dying children and their families, capturing the full range of uncertainties, hopes and disappointments, and ups and downs of children near the end of life.

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

Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging.

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.

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.

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Despite the fact that most palliative care educators are involved in teaching, there is little literature devoted to education specifically within palliative care.