03991nam 2200685Ia 450 991045983130332120200520144314.01-283-00899-897866130089920-231-50707-0(CKB)2670000000079708(EBL)895174(OCoLC)831121380(SSID)ssj0000475011(PQKBManifestationID)11291794(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000475011(PQKBWorkID)10462729(PQKB)11773249(MiAaPQ)EBC895174(Au-PeEL)EBL895174(CaPaEBR)ebr10449841(CaONFJC)MIL300899(EXLCZ)99267000000007970820090625d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransforming palliative care in nursing homes[electronic resource] the social work role /edited by Mercedes Bern-KlugNew York Columbia University Pressc20101 online resource (536 p.)End-of-life careDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13225-5 0-231-13224-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Residents5: 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 a Nursing Home Resident10: 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; IndexThe 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 caEnd-of-life care.Medical social workUnited StatesSocial work with older peopleUnited StatesPalliative treatmentUnited StatesNursing homesUnited StatesElectronic books.Medical social workSocial work with older peoplePalliative treatmentNursing homes362.17/5Bern-Klug Mercedes933094MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459831303321Transforming palliative care in nursing homes2100209UNINA