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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781185503321

Titolo

Hospice care for children / / edited by Ann Armstrong-Dailey, Sarah Zarbock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-282-54375-X

9786612543753

0-19-974784-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 416 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

Armstrong-DaileyAnn

ZarbockSarah F

Disciplina

362.1/756/083

Soggetti

Hospice care

Terminally ill children - Care

Terminally ill children - Family relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Issues in Clinical Management""; ""1. Children's Understanding of Death""; ""2. Pain and Symptom Management""; ""3. Psychosocial Aspects of Serious Illness in Childhood and Adolescence: Curse or Challenge?""; ""4. Caring for Children with Life-Limiting Illness and Their Families: Focus on Pediatric Hospice Nursing""; ""5. Neonatal Death""; ""6. Care for the Child with HIV Infection and AIDS""; ""II: Support Systems""; ""7. Caring for Bereaved Parents""; ""8. After a Child Dies: Helping the Siblings""

""9. Spiritual Care of Children and Parents"" ""10. Staff Support in Pediatric Hospice Care""; ""11. Unpaid Staff: The Volunteer Component""; ""12. Lessons in Grief: A Practical Look at School Programs""; ""13. Therapeutic Play and Creative Arts: Helping Children Cope with Illness, Death, and Grief""; ""14. The Primary Care Physician's Role""; ""III: Different Contexts, Different Lessons""; ""15. Learning from One Another: Lessons from Pediatrics for Palliative Care""; ""16. Palliative Care in an Inpatient Hospital Setting""; ""17. Ethical Decision Making at the End of Life""

""18. Incorporating Children in an Adult Hospice Program"" ""19. Death-



Related Literature for Children and Adolescents: Selected, Annotated, and with Guidelines and Resources for Adults""; ""Appendix""; ""Index""