Transforming palliative care in nursing homes [[electronic resource] ] : the social work role / / edited by Mercedes Bern-Klug
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (536 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.17/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medical social work - United States |
| Social work with older people - United States | |
| Palliative treatment - United States | |
| Nursing homes - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
Bern-KlugMercedes
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transforming palliative care in nursing homes |
| ISBN: | 1-283-00899-8 |
| 9786613008992 | |
| 0-231-50707-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459831303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
End-of-life care.