The Future for palliative care : issues of policy and practice

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The Future for palliative care : issues of policy and practice

edited by David Clark

Open University Press, 1993

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780335157648

内容説明

In recent years the independent hospice movement has done a great deal to promote care standards. But many issues remain unsolved. Can and should the hospice approach be translated into other settings? How can care be imrpoved in hospitals, in the community, and in residential and nursing homes? How can such care be costed and evaluated? What new service initiatives are required and how are these affected by changes in government policy? And how do planners and practitioners address the ethical and cultural needs of a changing society? Drawing on a variety of disciplines and specialties in medicine, nursing and the social sciences, the contributors to this volume explore the future for palliative care, paying particular attention to the relationship between policy and practice.

目次

Where and how people die quality and costs of care developments in bereavement services HIV/AIDS - lessons for policy and practice cultural issues in terminal care euthanasia the medicalization of dying - a nurse's view, a doctor's view future issues in pain control whither the hospices?
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ISBN 9780335157655

内容説明

In recent years the independent hospice movement has done a great deal to promote care standards. But many issues remain unsolved. Can and should the hospice approach be translated into other settings? How can care be imrpoved in hospitals, in the community, and in residential and nursing homes? How can such care be costed and evaluated? What new service initiatives are required and how are these affected by changes in government policy? And how do planners and practitioners address the ethical and cultural needs of a changing society? Drawing on a variety of disciplines and specialties in medicine, nursing and the social sciences, the contributors to this volume explore the future for palliative care, paying particular attention to the relationship between policy and practice.

目次

  • Where and how people die
  • quality and costs of care
  • developments in bereavement services
  • HIV/AIDS - lessons for policy and practice
  • cultural issues in terminal care
  • euthanasia
  • the medicalization of dying - a nurse's view, a doctor's view
  • future issues in pain control
  • whither the hospices?

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