Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 629 p. Leading palliative care experts illustrate how you can improve both communication with cancer patients and their quality of life. For more than twenty years, this guide has been the go-to resource for busy practicing oncology and palliative care clinicians. This fourth edition, now titled Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and...
OUP, 2009. - 446 p. This comprehensive textbook is the first to be written by practitioners working in Africa, specifically to meet the palliative care needs of children. It provides practical guidance by improving access to, and delivery of, palliative care in this demanding setting. Written by a group with wide experience of caring for children with life-limiting illnesses in...
London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007. — 268 p. This book is concerned with life and death and what people value to help them deal with both. It focuses specifically on what people want from specialist palliative care social work. Specialist palliative care social work is key to providing the personal and social support needed by people who are facing life-limiting...
Demos Medical, 2019. — 344 p. — ISBN: 9780826128249 Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care is a practical guide to providing evidence-based and value-based care to adult and pediatric cancer patients experiencing severe symptoms and stressors due to cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and comorbid conditions. This accessible reference provides the art and science...
Springer Science, 2007. — 234 p. — ISBN: 978-0-387-70874-4. The book brings together leading experts to spotlight core issues in the field and identify ways PC can fill gaps in current care systems. This far-sighted volume redefines palliative care as interdisciplinary and integrative, bridging acute and long-term care to respond to clients’ evolving needs. Those teaching...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 283 p. — ISBN: 9780198530039 This book has been organized to address generalized aspects of breathlessness in advanced illness and more specific aetiologies and managements relevant to particular underlying diseases. It summarizes the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of breathlessness, measurement, research approaches, rehabilitation and...
NHS Lothian, 2012. - 82 p. Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with any life limiting illness. provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms. integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care. offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until...
Palliative Care Service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Third editionVersion 2, 2010. - 72 p. Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with any life limiting illness.These Guidelines reflect a consensus of opinion about good practice in the management of adults with a life limiting illness. There is a...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. - 350 p. This evidence-based text brings together the theory and practice of palliative care. It examines at all aspects of palliative care i.e. psycho social, spiritual and physical in a highly practical way. The evidence base for cancer care has been developed within the Hospice Movement over the past 50 years and, in the main, it transfers across to...
Humana Press, Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2018. — 342 p. — (Current Clinical Psychiatry) — ISBN10: 3319652400. The text is designed to present a state-of the-art approach to the assessment and management of bereavement-related psychopathology. Written by experts in the field, book addresses the elevated urgency of bereavement from its former classification as an area...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 322 p. — (Case Studies in Nursing) — ISBN: 978-0-470-95825-4 Case Studies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care uses a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with an important learning tool to improve critical thinking skills and encourage discussion toward improving experiences for patients and their families.The book is organized into...
ITexLi, 2017. — 138 p. —ISBN: 953513566X. This book focuses on several underestimated topics in palliative care. The book will aid several figures facing the daily challenges of palliative care. Clinicians, nurses, volunteers, students and resident trainees, and other professionals can find this volume useful in their very difficult but extraordinarily fascinating mission....
6th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 1409 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-882132-8. This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade of this definitive award-winning textbook. It has been rigorously updated to offer a truly global perspective, highlighting the best current evidence-based practices, and collective wisdom from...
5th Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1281 p. — (Oxford Textbook). — ISBN10: 0199656096. — ISBN13: 978-0199656097. The definitive Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, now in its fifth edition, has again been thoroughly updated to offer a truly global perspective in this field of extraordinary talent and thoughtfulness. Updated to include new sections devoted to...
World Health Organization, the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, 2014. - 112 p. Using maps, graphs and case studies, and drawing on a wealth of resources, the Atlas addresses the following questions: What is palliative care? Why is palliative care a human rights issue? What are the main diseases requiring palliative care? What is the need for palliative care? What are the...
New York: Springer, 2019. — 309 p. This comprehensive guide thoroughly covers all aspects of neuropalliative care, from symptom-specific considerations, to improving communication between clinicians, patients and families. Neuropalliative Care: A Guide to Improving the Lives of Patients and Families Affected by Neurologic Disease addresses clinical considerations for diseases...
Saunders, 2011. — 660 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4377-1015-1 Supportive Oncology, by Drs. Davis, Feyer, Ortner, and Zimmermann, is your practical guide to improving your patients‘ quality of life and overall outcomes by integrating palliative care principles into the scope of clinical oncologic practice at all points along their illness trajectories. A multidisciplinary editorial team,...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 593 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-966039-1 While palliative care has adopted a holistic approach to treatment, medication driven symptom management ostensibly forms the critical aspect of care. Pharmacological therapy can be extremely complex because these patients often have coexisting medical conditions in addition to symptoms caused by...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 240 p. This book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilites of those who leade, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and always important work. In the United...
Elsevier Health Sciences, 2012. — 142 p. — (Anesthesiology Clinics of North America). This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics brings the reader up to date on the most important advances in surgical palliative care for anesthesiology intensivists. Topics covered include recent trends and developments, palliative care of patients on high doses of narcotics, trauma in the surgical...
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End-of-Life Issues. — 2015. — 664 p. For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent...
2nd edition. — Philadelphia: Saunders, 2011. — 753 p. Find out all you need to know about providing high-quality care to patients with serious illnesses from the 2nd edition of Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies. Drs. Linda L. Emanuel and S. Lawrence Librach, leaders in the field, address the clinical, physical, psychological, cultural, and spiritual...
2nd ed. — Oxford; Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 490 p. The book continues to address in particular the increasing focus of care delivery in primary care and the multidisciplinary nature of palliative care. Foreword. Abbreviations List . The Context and Principles of Palliative Care. Teamworking for Effective Palliative Care. Rights, Needs and Social Exclusion at the End of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 504 p. This handbook is a practical and comprehensive introduction to the field of palliative medicine. It provides clear insight into many of the complex issues that arise in the delivery of palliative care and will be an invaluable resource to all disciplines involved in palliative care in hospital, hospice and community settings. 1st Edition was the...
Third Ed. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 390 p. — ISBN: 978-1118065594. Written particulary with the GP and Primary Health Care team in mind, this book provides a comprehensive, yet practical guide to palliative care covering issues from clinical skills and service provision to ethical and psychosocial matters and includes a discussion of complementary therapies in palliative care...
Third Edition, National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, 2013. - 70 p. The number of individuals with a serious or life threatening illness continues to grow as the result of an aging population and advances in technology that allow increased longevity. In order to improve quality of life during serious illness or life threatening illness, an increasing number of...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 1269 p. General Principles Symptom Assessment and Management Psychosocial Support End-of-Life Care Across Settings Pediatric Palliative Care Special Issues for the Nurse in End-of-Life Care Models of Excellence and Innovative Community Projects “A Good Death” Appendix Palliative Care Resource List
Conari Press, 2017. — 144 p. — ISBN: 1573246964. Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas and helps the dying to find...
National Academy Press, 2001. — 344 p. In our society’s aggressive pursuit of cures for cancer, we have neglected symptom control and comfort care. Less than one percent of the National Cancer Institute’s budget is spent on any aspect of palliative care research or education, despite the half million people who die of cancer each year and the larger number living with cancer...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 200 p. This topical and timely text provides valuable insights into the choices and experiences of palliative and end of life care for young people with cancer and other life limiting illnesses. With a focus on palliative care provision across a range of different clinical settings, this comprehensive new resource explores care in the home, the hospice...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. — 535 p. The importance of palliative care for children facing life-threatening illness and their families is now widely acknowledged as an essential part of care, which should be available to all children and families, throughout the child's illness and at the end of life. The new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for...
ITexLi, 2023. — 183 p. — ISBN: 1803561866 9781803561868 1803561858 9781803561851 1803561874 9781803561875. This book examines supportive and palliative care and quality of life in cancer patients. Chapters address such topics as anxiety, depression, and delirium in terminally ill cancer patients, ethics in palliative care, palliative care medications, assisted suicide and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 242 p. Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a...
London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004. — 272 p. The book describes how traditional medical and more reflective models can be combined when working in end of life care to alleviate pain and suffering. An insight into personal reflection by one of the Reflection Gurus in Nursing. It covers narrative reflection into holistic care as practised in a specific Hospice. the...
New York; Oxford University Press Inc., 2003. — 215 p. This book provides a clear picture of the benefits of introducing palliative care in residential and nursing homes, as well as the numerous steps that need to be taken to achieve it. It would be of value to any palliative care service that deals with residential care facilities and nursing homes, and should be required...
4th edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 384 p. The Context and Principles of Palliative Care, Patient and Public Involvement in Palliative Care, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Serious Illness, Palliative Care in the Community, Hospital Palliative Care, Ethics in Palliative Care Practice, Conversations and Communication, Integrating New Perspectives: Working with Loss and...
Saunders, 2007. - 736 p. Edited by two leading pioneers of palliative medicine, this essential guide provides you with the core knowledge and skills necessary to provide comprehensive and compassionate care. Designed to meet the needs of the daily medical caretaker, this detailed text examines patient assessment, communication, cultural considerations, legal and ethical issues,...
Humana Press, 2010. — 86 p. This concise book offers an engaging case-based approach to palliative care. Experts in the field provide the essential aspects of daily practice with real cases presented as forums for the discussion of the complexities and practicalities of palliative treatment. Clearly structured, each chapter opens with bullet points highlighting the most...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 410 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-48415-9 This textbook, Radiation Oncology in Palliative Cancer Care, represents the full evolution of radiation therapy, and of oncology in general. It is an acknowledgment that palliative radiotherapy is now a sub-specialty of radiation oncology. This formally makes palliative radiotherapy a priority within patient care,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 275 p. — ISBN10: 1442272805, 13 978-1442272804. Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost...
London; Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002. — 188 p. The combined practice area of the contributors to this book include social work, psychotherapy, sociology, counselling psychology, creative writing, nursing, and medicine. Several of the authors have multiple professions, and have come to palliative care later in their careers. Indeed, the combined skill of this group is...
3rd ed. — New York: Springer Publishing Company, LLC. 2010. — 577 p. This edition of the textbook provides comprehensive updated content, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and cutting-edge teaching and learning strategies to achieve the End-of-Life nursing competencies providing a lifespan approach. The concepts and methods of education, which help to move palliative nursing...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2018. — 905 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-95368-7 This comprehensive revision of the invaluable reference presents a rigorous survey of pain and palliative care phenomena across the lifespan and across disciplines. Grounded in the biopsychosocial viewpoint of its predecessor, it offers up-to-date understanding of assessments and interventions for pain, the...
Draft guideline, 2013. — 66 p. Constipation is one of the most common symptoms experienced by patients with advanced, progressive illness. In palliative medicine, constipation is the third most frequently encountered symptom after pain and anorexia. Common factors which increase the risk of constipation in this population include physical illness, hospitalisation and the use of...
New York: Springer, 2012. - 241 p. As end of life care is extended to more and more people it is increasingly important that people with progressive neurological disease are recognised as having particular issues as their disease progresses. This group of people with advancing motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, multiple systems atrophy, progressive...
Wiley, 2015. — 293 p. The first comprehensive, clinically focused guide to help hospitalists and other hospital-based clinicians provide quality palliative care in the inpatient setting. Written for practicing clinicians by a team of experts in the field of palliative care and hospital care, Hospital-Based Palliative Medicine: A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach offers:...
Nova Science Publishers, 2017. — 525 p. This book provides a new outlook on the practice of palliative care worldwide. All five continents are represented in this book by global leaders in this relatively new subspecialty. The chapters in the book re-emphasize the fact that in the 21st century, most patients in the world still lack this elementary tool to alleviate suffering...
Springer, 2015. — 205 s. Würdevoll und ohne Leiden zu sterben, ist der Wunsch vieler Menschen. Damit dies gelingt, ist es sinnvoll, sich rechtzeitig mit diesem Lebensabschnitt auseinanderzusetzen und zu informieren. Aber auch, wenn man bereits unheilbar krank oder als Angehöriger betroffen ist kann man Hilfe und ein tragfähiges Netzwerk finden. Der renommierte...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 352 p. Palliative Nursing is an evidence-based practical guide for nurses working in areas of practice where general palliative care is provided. This may be in hospitals, nursing homes, dementia units, the community and any other clinical areas that are not classified as specialist palliative care. This book first explores the history and ethos of...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 127 p. — (Oxford American Palliative Care Library) — ISBN: 978-0-19-976892-9 For patients and family caregivers the journey through illness and transitions of care is characterized by a series of progressive physical and emotional losses. Grief reactions represent the natural response to those losses. Grief is defined by a constellation of...
British Columbia Medical Association, 2010 - 2011. — 73 p. Part 1: Approach to Care This guideline presents assessment and management strategies for primary care practitioners caring for adult patients (≥ 19 years) with incurable cancers and end stage chronic disease of many types and their families. NOTE: Care gaps have been identified at important transitions for this group...
A report. 2nd ed. — London; the Economist Intelligence Unit, 2015. — 68 p. The Quality of Death Index was devised and constructed by an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The 2015 Index evaluates 80 countries using 20 quantitative and qualitative indicators across five categories: the palliative and healthcare environment, human resources, the affordability of care, the quality...
2 edition. — Oxford University Press, 2009. — 1088 p. — (Oxford Medical Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0199234353; ISBN13: 978-0199234356. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care covers all aspects of palliative care in a concise and succinct format suited to busy professionals who need to access key information in their daily care of patients. This new edition is revised throughout,...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 864 p. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care covers all aspects of palliative care in a concise and succinct format suited to busy professionals who need to access key information in their daily care of patients. This practical guide covers briefly the historical and epidemiological background of palliative care, and the growth of...
3rd edition. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 977 p. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care returns for a third edition, maintaining the concise yet comprehensive format suited to the busy practitioner for quick access to key information, and fully updated to reflect changes in the palliative care landscape. Featuring an increased emphasis on non-malignant diseases...
2-nd ed. — Health Professions Press, 2003. — 388 p. All chapters are written by nurses and other health professionals who have recognised expertise and experience in the management of problems faced by nurses in their care of dying people and their loved ones. Framing Palliative Care Evidence-Based Practice in Palliative Care Communication Skills in Palliative Care Occupational...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-020170-8. The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care, providing a compilation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. This online resource volume was uniquely developed by an interdisciplinary editorial team to address an array of providers...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 529 p. The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. The table of contents follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting...
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