Palliative and nursing home care : policies, challenges and quality of life

著者

• Plunkett, Samuel E.

書誌事項

Palliative and nursing home care : policies, challenges and quality of life

Samuel E. Plunkett, editor

（Public health in the 21st century series）（Nova biomedical）

Nova Science, c2011

• : hardcover

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book examines the policies, challenges, and quality of life issues in palliative care and nursing home care facilities. Some topics discussed in this compilation include: identifying the palliative care needs of home-based dementia patients and their caregivers; the functions of sexuality in older adults living in nursing homes and increasing awareness of staff and family members to this issue; haematology and non-oncological respiratory patients in palliative care; the changing role of the licensed practical nurse in nursing home care; obese nursing residents and their special considerations; gynaecological cancer and palliative cancer care; and neonatal palliative care.

目次

• Preface
• Identifying the Palliative Care Needs of Home-Based People with End-Stage Dementia & their Carers
• Mental Distress in Children Orphaned by AIDS: The Efficacy of Natural Mentoring as Palliative Care
• Quality of Sexual Life of Nursing Home Residents
• Back to the Future: A Research Journey in Haematology & Palliative Care
• The Changing Role of the Licensed Practical Nurse in Nursing Home Care
• Special Considerations for Providing Care for Obese Nursing Home Residents
• Palliative Care & Dementia: Is a Good Death Possible at Home?
• Where & How Non-Oncological Respiratory Patients Die: A Palliative Answer
• Can Data Envelopment Analysis Be Used to Study Performance Efficiency in Nursing Homes?
• Quality of Life for Older Persons Living in Nursing Homes: A Cross-Sectional Study
• Neonatal Palliative Care: New Practice, New Challenges
• Depression & Mood Distress among Female Patients with Gynaecological Cancer in a Programme of Palliative Cancer Care
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB06955801
• ISBN:
  • 9781611224177
• LCCN: 2010041311
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 221 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : R726.8
  • NLM : WB 310
  • DC22 : 362.17/5
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Palliative treatment
  • LCSH : Nursing home care
  • MESH : Palliative Care
  • MESH : Nursing Homes
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB03246926
  • BA78099291