Palliative and nursing home care
Subtitle: policies, challenges, and quality of life
By: Samuel E. Plunkett, editor
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611224177
Subjects: Nursing home care; Palliative Care; Palliative treatment; Nursing Homes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identifying the palliative care needs of home-based people with end-stage dementia and their carers / Barbara Anderson, Debbie Kralik; title: Mental distress in children orphaned by AIDS : the efficacy of natural mentoring as palliative care / Francis N. Onuoha; title: Quality of sexual life of nursing home residents / André Dupras; title: Back to the future : a research journey in haematology and palliative care / Pam McGrath; title: The changing role of the licensed practical nurse in nursing home care / Aggie T.G. Paulus, Arno J.A. van Raak; title: Special considerations for providing care for obese nursing home residents / Holly C. Felix ... [et al.]; title: Palliative care and dementia : is a good death possible at home? / Barbara Anderson; title: Where and how non-oncological respiratory patients die : a palliative answer / Michele Vitacca, Luca Barbano; title: Can data envelopment analysis be used to study performance efficiency in nursing homes? / Daniel G. Shimshak; title: Quality of life for older persons living in nursing homes : a cross-sectional study / Mimi Tse, Vanessa Wan; title: Neonatal palliative care : new practice, new challenges / Pierre Bétrémieux, Umberto Simeoni; title: Depression and mood distress among female patients with gynecological cancer in a programme of palliative cancer care / L. Slovacek.