Read complete books and articles on: Hospice Care

Hospice - program of humane and supportive care for the terminally ill and their families; the term also applies to a professional facility that provides care to dying patients who can no longer be cared for at home. Hospice is an alternative to hospitalization that emphasizes home care for as long as possible; relief from pain; an attractive, noninstitutional environment if the patient can no

13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Hospice Care

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The Hospice Alternative: A New Context for Death and Dying (1983) » Read Now
by Anne Munley. 345 pgs.

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...patients and families received hospice care. I was received into this hospice...since become a model for modern hospice care. Its program, which is partially...the push for...
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Experiences of Death: An Anthropological Account (Chap. Seven "The Hospice Alternative" and Chap. Eight "Living with Death") » Read Now
by Jennifer Lorna Hockey. 220 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Highfield House 95 2: Hospice Care, the temporal, spatial and conceptual...through counselling and through Hospice care for dying people. In beginning...only in the current...
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Final Choices: To Live or to Die in an Age of Medical Technology (Chap. 9 "The Hospice Movement and Alternative Solutions to Incurable Illness") » Read Now
by George M. Burnell. 374 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Do-not-resuscitate orders. 4. Hospice care. 5. Death. I. Title. DNLM...281 Current Status of Hospice Care 282 Suicide as...On the other hand, the cost of hospice care is...
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Death Rites: Law and Ethics at the End of Life (Chap. 7 "From Vision to System: The Maturing of the Hospice Movement") » Read Now
by Robert Lee, Derek Morgan. 308 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

This unique collection focuses on the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medico-legal management of death. Each chapter throws up new and unusual problems in this area, highlighting the tension between personal autonomy and medical responsibility. The book thus charts a way through the moral minefield.
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Hospice or Hemlock? Searching for Heroic Compassion » Read Now
by Constance E. Putnam. 212 pgs.

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Serving the Underserved: Caring for People Who Are Both Old and Mentally Retarded: A Handbook for Caregivers (Chap. 60 "Hospice") » Read Now
by Mary C. Howell, Deirdre G. Gavin, Gerard A. Cabrera, Henry A. Beyer. 508 pgs.

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...Considerations in the Decision-Making Process of the Hospice Care Provider S. Charles Archuleta 352...Howell, MD, PhD Figure 6 Program Hospice Care 9-9:30 Hospice care for...
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Social Workers' Participation in the Resolution of Ethical Dilemmas in Hospice Care, in Health and Social Work » Read Now
by Ellen L. Csikai. 10 pgs.

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...Resolution of Ethical Dilemmas in Hospice Care. by Ellen L. Csikai A decision to accept hospice care often results only after much emotional...How then are ethical dilemmas...
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Successful Interprofessional Collaboration on the Hospice Team, in Health and Social Work » Read Now
by Dona J. Reese, Mary-Aim Sontag. 10 pgs.

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...only to fulfill the promise of hospice--holistic care--but to achieve the primary purpose...1997). Hospice and managed care. Hospice Journal, 12(2), 81-84...
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Fragile Lives: Death, Dying and Care (Chap. Ten "Palliation: Masking Pain or Masking Death?" » Read Now
by Beverley McNamara. 165 pgs.

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A sensitively observed ethnographic account of the experience of terminal illness and care.
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Coping with Public Tragedy (Part IV "The Role of Hospice in Public Tragedy") » Read Now
by Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, Kenneth J. Doka. 314 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Developed in conjunction with the Hospice Foundation of America's 10th annual tele-conference, Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy examines our varied responses to public tragedy, techniques available to cope with these events, and the role of the hospice in public tragedies. The essays...
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Developed in conjunction with the Hospice Foundation of America's 10th annual tele-conference, Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy examines our varied responses to public tragedy, techniques available to cope with these events, and the role of the hospice in public tragedies. The essays included look at factors that define a public tragedy and offer insight and advice to professionals as they help those coping with loss. Case examples include Sherry Schachter's experience at Ground Zero, a consideration of the devastation in Florida caused by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.
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What the People Would Want If They Knew More about It: A Case for the Social Marketing of Hospice Care, in The Hastings Center Report » Read Now
by John M. Stanley. 2 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Oncology Social Workers' Attitudes toward Hospice Care and Referral Behavior, in Health and Social Work » Read Now
by Janet E. Becker. 10 pgs.

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...Social Workers Attitudes toward Hospice Care and Referral Behavior. by...oncology social workers to-ward hospice care and the frequency with which they referred terminally...
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The Social Dimensions of AIDS: Method and Theory (Chap. Fourteen "Hospice Staff Response to Fear of AIDS") » Read Now
by Douglas A. Feldman, Thomas M. Johnson. 280 pgs.

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