Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Translating that principle into methods of guiding care at the end of life, however, can be a complicated and daunting task. DIgnity therapy, a psychological intervention developed by Dr. …
This handbook provides a source of information about the day to day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Evidence based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows t…
This handbook provides a source of information about the day to day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Evidence based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows t…
Intended primarily for students in the clinical years of the medical course, this text will also appeal to junior doctors, nurses and anybody needing to know about caring for the terminally ill.
"At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on in…
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 physical, cogn…