Download or read book Preparing the Children written by Kathy Nussbaum and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dying in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
Download or read book Terminal Illness written by Charles Kemp and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides the practical guidance nurses need to give effective and compassionate care to terminally ill clients. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition offers new approaches to palliative care as well as detailed coverage of related psychosocial and physical nursing care issues.
Download or read book Approaching Death written by Committee on Care at the End of Life and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
Download or read book Counseling the Terminally Ill written by George S. Lair and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing a focus on the spiritual needs of death and dying, the theme of this book is that the focus of counselling with people who are dying should be on the psychospiritual aspects of death and dying. It is based on two assumptions - that death and anxiety, not pain, are the most critical issues for the dying, and that the time of dying is an opportunity for growth and transformation. The author believes that it is imperative for counselling professionals to realize that at this time understanding and caring are primary.
Download or read book Living with Dying written by Dame Cicely M. Saunders and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition incorporates the latest developments in the treatment of the terminally ill patient. It tackles the general ethical and medical principles in the care of the dying patient and considers the details of the control of pain and other symptoms, with the hope that doctors and other professionals will support the patient and his family by sharing the truth with them and empathizing with their emotional suffering. Written by internationally renowned authors, this book is an invaluable handbook for family doctors and health professionals and a compassionate source of information for the terminally ill and their relatives.
Download or read book Dying Well written by Ira Byock and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well. Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, medical drama, and conflict. Through the true stories of patients, he shows us that a lot of important emotional work can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. It is a companion for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to loved ones—and how to make the end of life as meaningful and enriching as the beginning. Ira Byock is also the author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life.
Download or read book Oxford Guide to CBT for People with Cancer written by Stirling Moorey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Cognitive behaviour therapy for people with cancer / Stirling Moorey and Steven Greer. 2002.
Download or read book Terminal Illness written by Andrea C. Nakaya and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents various opinions on the best way to care for the terminally ill and their friends and family, including a debate on the role of euthanasia.
Download or read book Help I m Living With Terminal Illness written by Reggie Weems and published by Shepherd Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mini-book helping people who are terminally ill, as well as those who minister to them. We don’t find it easy to face death, and the diagnosis of a terminal illness can be devastating. Yet every life has an expiration date. Written with a pastor’s heart for those suffering with a terminal diagnosis and for their family and friends, this booklet conveys practical advice, spiritual consolation, and, most importantly, an eternal hope which the dying process cannot diminish and death cannot extinguish.
Download or read book Fading Away written by Betty Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comes out of an in-depth, qualitative study of the experiences of twenty-three families in which one parent was dying of cancer. The study attempted to better understand the impact of terminal illness on the entire family system and sought to develop a theoretical framework that would guide the assessment of and services to such families. As a result of interviews with patients, spouses and their adult children over three phases of the study, the process of ""fading away"" was identified and conceptualized in terms of various phases which contributed to this process. The book is not a research report but rather presents more generally the ideas that developed from the study, with two purposes: to increase the reader's understanding of particular experiences that families encounter when dealing with terminal illness, specifically cancer. The intended readership also includes families themselves: to propose guidelines for care to be considered by practitioners working with such families.
Download or read book Chronic and Terminal Illness written by Sheila Payne and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most chronically and terminally ill patients are cared for in their own homes and represent a major yet free resource. These patients are not in hospitals or hospices and their day-to-day care is provided by family and friends at home. Carers are an invaluable resource and there is an increasing amount of research into their role and the experiences in caring for the terminally ill, patients with cancer and patients with other chronic diseases. This book provides a critique of the theoretical concept of caring, carers and caregivers. Material is based on empirical evidence from recent studies with adults with acquired chronic illnesses, including terminal illness. The empirical data within the book has been gathered from the perspective of those providing personal, domestic or emotional care to others already known to them by virtue of kinship, co-habitation or friendship, rather than carers organized on a professional or voluntary basis.
Download or read book Death in America written by Robert Klassen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terminal illness and death of a loved one move us deeply and sometimes mysteriously change our lives. These stories explore our different reactions to this profound experience
Download or read book Carpe Diem written by Ed Madden and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming book about living with a terminal illness and making every day enjoyable.
Download or read book Saying Goodbye written by Barbara Okun and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone you love receives a terminal diagnosis, the whole family is suddenly faced with a prolonged crisis. While medical advances have given us the gift of extending life, meaning that a loved one could survive months or even years before dying, it has also changed the way we grieve. Published in collaboration with Harvard Health Publications, Saying Goodbye guides you through this complex journey, offering hope and healing for those who may be "living with death" for an extended period of time.
Download or read book Terminal Illness written by Mary E. Williams and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most difficult choices that society faces involve the care and treatment of the fatally ill. Chapters include: How Can Society Best Meet the Needs of the Terminally Ill? How Can People Best Cope With Terminal Illness? Should Physicians Be Permitted to Hasten the Deaths of the Terminally Ill? Do the Terminally Ill Have the Right to Die?
Download or read book Help I m Living with Terminal Illness written by Reggie Weems and published by Life-Line Mini-Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mini-book helping people who are terminally ill, as well as those who minister to them. We don't find it easy to face death, and the diagnosis of a terminal illness can be devastating. Yet every life has an expiration date. Written with a pastor's heart for those suffering with a terminal diagnosis and for their family and friends, this booklet conveys practical advice, spiritual consolation, and, most importantly, an eternal hope which the dying process cannot diminish and death cannot extinguish.
