Palliative Care for Non-Cancer Patients

Zusatztext A worthwhile addition to the library shelf of any hospice or palliative care service that manages any patients with nonmalignant disease. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung The specialty of palliative care has traditionally grown out of oncology and there has been little research into the needs of patients dying from causes other than cancer. Few non-cancer patients receive hospice in-patient, home care or day care although a good proportion of hospices say that their services are available to non-cancer patients. As a result, the importance of palliative care for non-cancer patients is now being increasingly recognized internationally, and in the UK a committee reporting to the Department of Health recommended that palliative care should be accessible to all patients who need such care.Palliative Care for Non-Cancer Patients considers the needs and experiences of patients dying from, for example, stroke, heart disease or dementia by,drawing on a range of disciplines and specialties in medicine. The provision of palliative care for patients dying from causes other than cancer raises a number of important questions for policy makers and purchasers. This book summarizes what is known about the needs of and appropriate service provision for people dying of causes other than cancer and begins to set a research agenda. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Stroke Respiratory disease Heart disease Neurodegenerative disease Children and young adults The management of chronic pain in palliative non-cancer patients Palliative care in liver disease Renal palliative care Palliative care for patients with dementia Sickle cell disease HIV/AIDS Palliative care in nursing homes Palliative care in hospital settings for patients with non-malignant disease Palliative care for non-cancer patients: a UK perspective from primary care Specialist palliative care and non-malignant diseases Patients' perspectives Reforming care through continuous quality improvement Palliative care for non-cancer patients: a purchaser perspective Informal carers of dependants with advanced disease Specialist palliative care for non-cancer patients: the ethical arguments Cultural issues in palliative care for non-cancer patients Clinical implications Discussion ...

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• Authors: Julia Higginson Addington-Hall
• Assisted by: Julia Addington-Hall (Editor), Julia (Senior Lecturer/Deputy Head Addington-Hall (Editor), Julia M. Addington-Hall (Editor), Addington-Hall Julia (Editor), Irene Higginson (Editor), Irene (Professor of Palliative Care & Policy Higginson (Editor), Irene J. Higginson (Editor), Higginson Irene (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2001
• EAN: 9780192629609
• ISBN: 978-0-19-262960-9
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 248 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Krankenpflege, Notfallmedizin, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Medical / Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / Oncology & Cancer, MEDICAL / Pain Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, MEDICAL / Pain Management