Key concepts in palliative care
2014
eBook
Abstract: Key Concepts in Palliative Care provides just this in a compact, fifty-concept guide to the field. Taking account of the government's "End of Life Care Strategy", contributors set out the key issues affecting practice across a range of health and social care contexts.
Main title:
Key concepts in palliative care / [edited by] Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse.
Author:
Baldwin, Moyra A., editor of compilationWoodhouse, Jan, editor of compilationCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
London [England] : SAGE, 2011.Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014.
Collation:
1 online resource (58 entries) : 15 images ; digital files.
Series title:
Variant title:
Palliative care
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: xvii, 245 pages
Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- About the editors and contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse -- 1 Agencies: resources for adults with a palliative care need in the UK / Helen Fruin -- 2 Attributes of palliative caring / Moyra A. Baldwin -- 3 Caring for the adult: “a reversal of roles”./.Virginia C. Williams -- 4 Caring for the carers / Sheila Payne -- 5 Caring for the child with palliative care needs / Yvonne Flood -- 6 Caring for the older person / Victoria Ridgway -- 7 Caring for young people / Amanda Humphreys and Pat Rose -- 8 Communication / Jan Woodhouse -- 9 Concept of death / Jill McCarthy -- 10 Coronial process / Richard Griffith -- 11 Cultural issues in palliative care / Shirley Firth -- 12 Death / Jane Quigley -- 13 Environment of care: palliative care within the acute hospital care ward / John Costello -- 14 Finance issues and the organisation of palliative care / Peter Hartland -- 15 Financial aspects for patients and carers / Jan Woodhouse -- 16 Funerals / Jan Woodhouse -- 17 Good death / Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse -- 18 The globalisation of palliative care / Lynda Prescott -- 19 Holism / Moyra A. Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood -- 20 Hospice movement and evolution of palliative care / Moyra A. Baldwin -- 21 Information technology / Dion Smyth -- 22 Legal and ethical issues in palliative care / Barbara Beard -- 23 Loss, grief and bereavement / Jan Woodhouse -- 24 Marginalised groups / Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead -- 25 Multi-disciplinary teams / Moyra A. Baldwin -- 26 Organ donation / Natalie A. Pattison -- 27 Organisational management of palliative care / Steve Kirk -- 28 Palliative care and the person with cancer / Debbie Wyatt -- 29 Palliative care for the person with a learning disability / Sue Read -- 30 Palliative care and the person with mental ill-health / Catherine Black and Julie Bailey-McHale -- 31 Palliative care and the person with a non-cancer diagnosis / Andrea Dean -- 32 Palliative care education / Karen Manford-Walley -- 33 Patient choices and preferences in palliative care / Stephanie Neill and Dorothy Carter -- 34 Policy drivers / Mzwandile A. Mabhala -- 35 Quality assurance and palliative care / Jill McCarthy -- 36 Reactions of patients and carers / Sue Phillips -- 37 Rehabilitation in palliative care / Claire Jones and Adrian Bunnell -- 38 Research in palliative care / Catherine Black -- 39 Resources and information: looking for answers / Jan Woodhouse -- 40 Sexuality / Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse -- 41 Stigma / Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead -- 42 Symptom management: complementary and alternative medicine/integrated health / Joy Parkes and Sue Padmore -- 43 Symptom management: common symptoms / Catherine Black -- 44 Symptom management: difficult/complex symptoms / Catherine Black -- 45 Symptom management: emergencies / Catherine Black -- 46 Symptom management: the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP) / Richard Latten, John Ellershaw and Deborah Murphy -- 47 Spirituality / The Reverend Ian M Delinger -- 48 Stress and palliative care / Jan Woodhouse -- 49 Technology: equipment procurement / Sonya Currey, Janice Foster and Virginia C. Williams -- 50 Value of life / Moyra A. Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
1848608721 (pbk.)9781848608726 (pbk.)1848608713 (hbk.)9781848608719 (hbk.)9781784028947 (electronic version)
Dewey class:
616.029
LC class:
R726.8
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
502108
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