Palliative medicine

Geriatric Palliative Care covers a broad spectrum of issues characterizing care near the end of life for older adults.

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

Originally published in 1998, Psycho-Oncology was the first comprehensive text in the field and remains the gold standard today.

Seit geraumer Zeit wird kontrovers diskutiert, was geschehen soll, wenn Schwerkranke darum bitten, ihr Leben zu beenden.

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the compatibility of palliative care with the vision of human dignity in the Catholic moral and theological traditions.

More and more people, particularly the very elderly, are becoming interested in what is known as fasting to death - a method of ending their own lives in a self-determined way.

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.

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.

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.

This fascinating book demonstrates how hypnotic communication has the potential to improve patient outcomes in emergency care, integrating insights on the connection between mind and body for paramedics and other first responders.

Designed for primary care clinicians, this book is about patients who suffer with long term pain.

Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the attention, care, and understanding they need at that time in their life.

Fundamentals of Palliative Care for Student Nurses is a thorough yet accessible introduction and overview of a key area of the nursing programme.

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

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 innovative, comprehensive book covers key elements of perioperative management of older patients, from preoperative evaluation to post-hospital care.

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

Der zweite Band der Reihe "Palliative Care", entstanden im Universitätsinstitut für interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung (IFF) in Wien, gibt Aufschluss, was alte Menschen für ihre letzte Lebensphase wünschen und brauchen, ermutigt dazu, sie selbst zu befragen und das Thema Sterben und Tod anzusprechen.

Este título viene a complementar el título Manual de atención paliativa en pacientes con enfermedades crónicas: Aspectos generales coordinado también por el Dr.

Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual-reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning.

Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses' experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations.

Is there a place for palliative care within mental health?

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

The many unfounded myths and fears that surround working with people at the end of their lives are dispelled in this thoughtful book, and the authors provide both practical and emotional support for those involved in caring for dying patients.

Concentrating on techniques rather than pain pathology, Spinal Interventions in Pain Management is focused purely on the spine.

This book provides an easy, modern and practical way for physicians to approach the world of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV).

Praxisorientiertes Handbuch zur palliativen Pflege, das einfühlsam das "Leben in einem permanenten Augenblick" von Menschen mit einer Demenz beschreibt und zeigt, wie Pflegende sterbende demenzkranke Menschen pflegen, unterstützen und begleiten können.

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

In recent years, palliative care has emerged as the leading model of person-centered care focused on preserving quality of life and alleviating distress for people and families experiencing serious and life-limiting medical illness.

This book gives readers an understanding of the theoretical foundations of social support communication along with practical tools to ethically and justly connect with and support others in daily life.

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Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

This fascinating book demonstrates how hypnotic communication has the potential to improve patient outcomes in emergency care, integrating insights on the connection between mind and body for paramedics and other first responders.

End-of-life care, within critical care, continues to be a controversial topic.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

This book explores the unique challenges of disenfranchisement faced by Christian chaplains working within the secular and pluralistic context of contemporary healthcare.

Modern medical technology has changed not only the way we live but also the way we die.

The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously.

Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care.

It is only natural for someone in pain to attend to the body part that hurts.

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 book focuses on the features of pelvic pain in the different cancer diseases, the pain assessment tools, as well as the pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.

This textbook details the nursing care of babies with life limiting conditions and sets the context within the philosophy of internationally collaborative neonatal palliative care emphasising emotional and practical support for their families.

Zum BuchDownloadsAutorinnen & AutorenEnde der 1970er-Jahre erwachte weltweit eine Bewegung, die sich für die Entstehung von Hospiz­einrichtungen, Palliativstationen und ambulanten Palliativdiensten für Sterbende einsetzte.

This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice.

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.