As society faces the repercussions of assisted life and death, the news tells of legal battles over frozen embryos and doctors prosecuted after patients' suicide. Palmer argues society should not turn to law and science to determine such intimate matters as how our children are …
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"Using an "institutional" approach as an alternative to the prevailing "rights"--Based analysis of problems in law and medicine, this study explains why society should resist the tendency to look to science and law for a resolution of intimate matters, such as how our children a…
Written in plain language for nursing home staff caring for residents facing the final phase of life, this book examines eight topics of end-of-life and palliative care in a long-term setting, looking at grief and loss, advance care planning, choices about eating and drinking, p…
In eight innovative sessions, Henderson, Hanson, and Reynolds provide sage advice, numerous case studies, a wide variety of assessment tools, intructional guidelines, and practical exercises to educate nursing home staff about care of the dying. A Multidisciplinary focus outline…
The fourth edition of this, the 'first' textbook of palliative care, continues to provide a concise, but authoritative, guide to the provision of palliative care. The text has been thoroughly revised and reorganized throughout to reflect the recent pace of change in this rapidly…
The fourth edition of this, the 'first' textbook of palliative care, continues to provide a concise, but authoritative, guide to the provision of palliative care. The text has been thoroughly revised and reorganized throughout to reflect the recent pace of change in this rapidly…
"The multiprofessional nature of palliative care is reflected in the choice of contributors from a wide range of disciplines whilst retaining a strong link with St. Christopher's Hospice. Palliative physicians, oncologists, general practitioners, nurses and other health professi…
Dosa, a geriatrician with a strong aversion to cats, tells the endearing story of Oscar the cat, the aloof resident at a nursing home who only spends time with people who are about to die. Despite hearing numerous stories about Oscar's uncanny ability to predict when a patient's…
Oscar has very special skill, as Dr. Dosa discovered while working as an attending physician at the nursing home Steere House. Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people are about to die. Over the period of three years, he has presided over the deaths of nearly thirty …
When Oscar arrived at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island he was a cute little cat with attitude. He loved to stretch out in a puddle of sunlight and chase his tail until he was dizzy. Occasionally he consented to a scratch behind the ears, but onl…
Shares the author's experiences of working with the elderly and the story of a unique nursing-home cat whose uncanny, apparently precognitive vigils at the sides of residents who are about to die has enabled staffers to administer patient care and noticeto loved ones.