Transforming palliative care in nursing homes
Subtitle: the social work role
By: edited by Mercedes Bern-Klug
Series: End-of-life care; End-of-life care
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780231132244; 9780231132251; 9780231507073
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The need to extend the reach of palliative psychosocial care to nursing home residents with advanced chronic illness  -- Mercedes Bern-Klug; title: The structure and process of advanced chronic illness and palliative care in nursings homes  -- Sarah Thompson and Lisa Church; title: Paying for advanced chronic illness and hospice care in America's nursing homes  -- Michael J. Klug; title: Trends in the characteristics of nursing homes and residents  -- Mercedes Bern-Klug; title: Anticipating and managing common medical challenges encountered at the end of life  -- Ann Allegre; title: Identifying and addressing the psychosocial, social, spiritual, and existential issues affecting nursing home residents at the end of life  -- Jean C. Munn; title: Identifying and addressing family members' psychosocial, spiritual, and existential issues related to having a loved one living and dying in a nursing home  -- Patricia J. Kolb; title: Identifying and addressing ethical issues in advanced chronic illness and at the end of life  -- Charles E. Gessert and Don F. Reynolds; title: Final discharge planning: rituals related to the death of a nursing home resident  -- Peggy Sharr and Mercedes Bern-Klug; title: Grief, self-care, and staff-care: repeated loss in the nursing home environment  -- Sara Sanders and Patti Anewalt; title: The future of palliative psychosocial care for nursing home residents with advanced chronic illness -- Mercedes Bern-Klug.