Dying with comfort
Subtitle: family illness narratives and early palliative care
By: Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles ... [et al.].
Series: Health communication; Health communication (Cresskill, N.J.)
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cresskill, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781572739840; 9781572739857
Subjects: Terminally ill; Family relationships; Families of the terminally ill; Palliative treatment; Caregivers; Communication in medicine; Palliative Care; Attitude to Death; Family Relations; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The palliative care imperative for families; title: Palliative care communication and training; title: Application of family communication theory to end-of-life care; title: The isolated journey; title: The rescued journey; title: The comforted journey; title: The comfort initiative.