Hospice and palliative care
Subtitle: the essential guide
By: Stephen R. Connor
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781138648616; 9781138648623; 9781315080369
Subjects: Organization & administration; Palliative Care; Hospice Care; Hospices; Hospice care
Description: The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters provide mental-health and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the hospice practice as well as discussions of challenges and the future direction of the hospice movement. Updates to the new edition include advances in spiritual assessment and care, treatment of prolonged and complicated grief, provision of interdisciplinary palliative care in limited-resource settings, significant discussion of assisted suicide, primary healthcare including oncology, and more. Staff and volunteers new to the field along with experienced care providers and those using hospice and palliative care services will find this essential reading. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What are hospice and palliative care?; title: The interdisciplinary team; title: Symptom management and physical care; title: Psychosocial and spiritual care; title: Grief and bereavement; title: Community, public, and professional education; title: Hospice and palliative care leadership; title: Hospice and palliative care in the U.S. health care system; title: How palliative care is unique in the health care system; title: How good are hospice and palliative care?; title: A right to die?; title: Hospice and palliative care around the world; title: The future of hospice and palliative care.