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UNINA9910459831303321 |
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Titolo |
Transforming palliative care in nursing homes [[electronic resource] ] : the social work role / / edited by Mercedes Bern-Klug |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-00899-8 |
9786613008992 |
0-231-50707-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (536 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical social work - United States |
Social work with older people - United States |
Palliative treatment - United States |
Nursing homes - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication and Acknowledgments; Epigraph; Contents; Foreword: Looking Back on the Nursing Home Experience of My Mother; Foreword; Introduction; 1: The Need to Extend the Reach of Palliative Psychosocial Care to Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness; 2: The Structure and Process of Advanced Chronic Illness and Palliative Care in Nursing Homes; 3: Paying for Advanced Chronic Illness and Hospice Care in America's Nursing Homes; 4: Trends in the Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Residents |
5: Anticipating and Managing Common Medical Challenges Encountered at the End of Life6: Identifying and Addressing the Psychosocial, Social, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Affecting Nursing Home Residents at the End of Life; 7: Identifying and Addressing Family Members' Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Related to Having a Loved One Living and Dying in a Nursing Home; 8: Identifying and Addressing Ethical Issues in Advanced Chronic Illness and at the End of Life; 9: Final Discharge Planning: Rituals Related to the Death of |
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a Nursing Home Resident |
10: Grief, Self-Care, and Staff-Care: Repeated Loss in the Nursing Home Environment11: The Future of Palliative Psychosocial Care for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness; Appendix; List of Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illness experience, not just at the end of life. Because a majority of nursing home residents are older adults facing multiple, advanced chronic conditions, this book is grounded in the provision of palliative care-especially palliative psychosocial care. Yet its practice recommendations ca |
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