Terminal Care category: 140 books
The Diagnosis Is Terminal
What Do We Do Now?
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
After receiving the bad news of terminal illness, many told the author the first thought they had was What do we do now? This prompted the production of The Diagnosis is Terminal. It covers the initial notification, wills, legal suggestions, intensive care, doctors notes, record keeping, drugs, oximeter...
by Barrie Cassileth, Phd, Dennis Turk
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
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. Health care experts discuss psychosocial assessment and measurement and the ability of clinicians to accurately assess and track...
Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
From Diagnosis to Bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for ALS are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the potential to slow its progression....
by Andrew Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
While palliative care has adopted a holistic approach to treatment, medication driven symptom management ostensibly forms the critical aspect of care. Pharmacological therapy can be extremely complex because these patients often have coexisting medical conditions in addition to symptoms caused by...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
by Christina Faull, Kerry Blankley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The care of patients with advanced and terminal illness can be extremely rewarding but often causes professionals a considerable amount of discomfort. This is especially so when you feel under confident in your abilities to provide a high quality of symptom management and relief from distress and...
Hospice Voices
Lessons for Living at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected.
In telling...
by Kathryn F. Weymouth PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Many times you will hear people say that they dont fear death but they do fear what they may have to endure before they reach that final passage. Relying on medical interventions and pharmaceuticals alone often does not bring the peaceful death that people hope for, but by integrating complementary...
Hospice Voices
Lessons for Living at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected.
In telling...
Last Acts
Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
What would you do if you had only a few days to live? Or a few weeks or months? What if a loved one were in this situation -- how could you help that person decide how to spend the time that remained? Perhaps you lost a family member or dear friend to a terminal illness and were baffled by that person's...
Suffering
Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses,...
"I'll See Myself Out, Thank You"
Thirty personal views in support of assisted suicide
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
A series of recent landmark cases have highlighted the issues surrounding assisted suicide and may be shifting public opinion in the direction of greater freedom. These essays cover every aspect of the topic from the legal and religious issues to the deeply personal experiences of patients and carers....
by Stephen J. McPhee, Margaret A. Winker, Michael W. Rabow
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care
"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of care for people with advanced disease—-for which its editors and authors and JAMA should...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an essential part of end of life care in the UK and most developed countries. It enables more people to live well and die as they would choose, and has significant implications for the individual person, their family and carers, and our wider society. In the context...