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 Read More...

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

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: The Problem of Death Today

2: Life in a Hospice

3: Interpretations of Hospice

4: Pains of the Dying

5: The Dynamics of Dying

6: The Hospice Staff: Stress and How to Cope with It

7: Toward an Understanding of Spiritual Support

8: The Future of the Hospice Movement

9: Hospice and Broad Countercultural Trends

Appendix A: Standards of a Hospice Program

Appendix B: How to Find Hospice Care

Appendix C: Useful References

Notes

Index
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Experiences of Death: An Anthropological Account (Chap. Seven "The Hospice Alternative" and Chap. Eight "Living with Death")
by Jennifer Lorna Hockey. 220 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter One an Approach to the Field

Chapter Two Boundaries Between Life and Death

Chapter Three Death Past and Present

Chapter Four Setting the Stage for Death

Chapter Five Keeping Them Going: the Work of the Care Staff1

Chapter Six One-Way Journeys: Residents' Experience1

Chapter Seven the Hospice Alternative

Chapter Eight Living with Death

Chapter Nine Ageing and Death: the Continuing Challenge

Notes

References

Index
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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")
by George M. Burnell. 374 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Why Dying Today Is a Problem for You and Your Family

Chapter 2: Key Questions You Need to Ask Yourself

Chapter 3: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Dying

Chapter 4: Hard Choices, Tough Decisions

Chapter 5: Do You Have a Philosophy of Living and Dying?

Chapter 6: How to Talk to Your Family or Friends about Dying or Prolonging Life

Chapter 7: How Does the Law Influence Decisions to End Life Support?

Chapter 8: The Right-To-Die Movement and Euthanasia

Chapter 9: The Hospice Movement and Alternative Solutions to Incurable Illness

Chapter 10: Practical Steps to Gain Peace of Mind

Chapter 11: Blueprint for the Future

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Appendixes

Appendix A: State Law Governing Living Wills/Declarations and Appointment of a Health Care Agent

Appendix B: Advance Directive Living Will and Health Care Proxy

Appendix C

Appendix D: The Hippocratic Oath

Appendix E: The Death with Dignity Act and What It Does

Appendix F: Directory of Organizations

Appendix G: Donor Criteria Chart

Appendix H: State Law Governing June 23, 1992 Surrogate or Family Decisionmaking for Patients without Advance Directives

Suggested Reading

Index
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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")
by Robert Lee, Derek Morgan. 308 pgs.

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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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1: Against the Definition of Brainstem Death

2: 'Who Wants to Live Forever?'

3: Power Over Death: the Final Sting

4: Corpses, Recycling and Therapeutic Purposes

5: Medical Futility: Cpr

6: Icu Triage: the Ethics of Scarcity, the Ideal of Impartiality and the Inadvertent Endorsement of Evil

7: From Vision to System: the Maturing of the Hospice Movement

8: Animal Rights and Wrongs: Medical Ethics and the Killing of Non-Human Animals

9: Tailoring Multiparity: the Dilemmas Surrounding Death by Selective Reduction of Pregnancy

10: Disasters: the Role of Institutional Responses in Shaping Public Perceptions of Death

11: Relatively Late Payments: Damages Beyond Death and Bereavement

12: Risking Death by Dangerous Sexual Behaviour and the Criminal Law

13: Deathly Silence: Doctors' Duty to Disclose Dangers of Death

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Hospice or Hemlock? Searching for Heroic Compassion
by Constance E. Putnam. 212 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface and Ackowledgments

1: The Matter of Death

2: Origins of the Debate

3: Whose Death Is It, Anyway?

4: Dealing with Death

5: Putting Principles into Practice

6: Death Matters

For Further Reading

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

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Part 1: Forewords

1: Foreword

2: Foreword

3: Foreword

Part 2: Introduction

4: Working with People Who Are Old and Mentally Retarded

5: The Educational Component of the Project

6: The Context of Exemplary Service

7: The Interdisciplinary Team: Two Perspectives

8: The Climate of Our Work

9: The Structure of Our Work

10: The Structure of This Book

Part 3: Assessment by Individual Discipline

11: The Nurse and the Nursing Assessment

12: Psychiatric Assessment

13: Occupational Therapy Assessment

14: Physical Therapy Evaluation

15: Psychological Assessment

16: Pastoral Care and the Assessment of Spiritual Needs

17: The Role of the Social Worker

18: Medical Assessment

19: Assessment of Legal Needs

20: Leisure Assessment

21: Assessment by Rehabilitation Medicine

Part 4: Interdisciplinary Issues and Themes

22: Serving the Underserved

23: Decision Making by and for Individuals of Questionable Competence

24: Confidentiality

25: What is Function? How Can It Be Maintained?

26: The Function of Relationships

27: A Conceptual Framework for Policy and Service Design

28: The Perspective of Holistic Health and Well-Being

29: Primary Health Care Needs of Adults with Mental Retardation

30: Exercise

31: Diet and Nutrition

32: Safety for Adults with Mental Retardation

33: Working with the Person Who Resists Medical Treatment

34: Easing the Transition of Hospitalization

35: Mental Health Perspectives

36: The Down Syndrome Alzheimer's Disease Connection

37: Depression

38: Community Housing

39: Community-Building in Group Homes

40: Work and Retirement

41: Retirement Programs

42: Spiritual and Religious Concerns

43: Modifying Religious Services for People Who Are Old and Mentally Retarded

44: Participation in Religious Observances

45: Intimacy Issues of Clients and Caregivers

46: Dysfunctional Behavior and Interventions

47: Sexuality

48: Senior/Masters Games in Special Olympics

49: Estate Planning: Providing for Your Child's Future

50: Burnout Among Family Caregivers

51: Tom: The Story of a Friendship

53: Institutional Ethics Committees

54: Impact of an Institutional Ethics Committee

55: A Case for Equal Access to Health Care

56: Staff Training in Ethics

57: Protecting the Rights of the Client with Alzheimer's Disease

58: Grief Counseling

59: A Developmental Approach to Cognitive Understanding of Death and Dying

60: Hospice

61: Fulfilling the Spiritual and Faith Needs of Mentally Retarded Persons in a Hospice Unit

62: Funeral and Memorial Services

63: Training Staff to Care for Dying Clients

64: Legal Considerations in the Decision-Making Process of the Hospice Care Provider

65: Medical Orders for the Dying Patient: Do Not Attempt Resuscitation, Limits of Treatment, and Recommendation to Remain in Residence

66: The Will-Writing Project

67: A Support Group on the Issues of Death and Dying with Mentally Retarded Adults

Part 5: Reflections and Recommendations

68: Research in the Context of an Educational and Service Project

69: Recommendations from Experience

70: Trajectory of a Three-Year Project

Part 6: Afterwords

71: Working at the Kennedy Aging Project

72: Who Do We Blame?

73: Personal Reflections on Kennedy Aging Project Families

74: Full Circle and More

75: Spirituality in the Secular Service Environment

76: Closing Thoughts

77: Internship at the Kennedy Aging Project (09/87 - 12/87)

78: Last Piece

Notes and References

Appendix Intake Instrument

Authors' Biographies
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Social Workers' Participation in the Resolution of Ethical Dilemmas in Hospice Care, in Health and Social Work
by Ellen L. Csikai. 10 pgs.

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Successful Interprofessional Collaboration on the Hospice Team, in Health and Social Work
by Dona J. Reese, Mary-Aim Sontag. 10 pgs.

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Fragile Lives: Death, Dying and Care (Chap. Ten "Palliation: Masking Pain or Masking Death?"
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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One: Life in the Face of Death

Two: Thoughts about Facing Death

Three: The Cancer Story

Four: Constructions of a Good Death

Five: How We Die: the Uncertain Worlds of Terminally Ill People

Six: Medicine's Affair with Death

Seven: Speaking the ‘truth’ about Dying

Eight: Patient Autonomy and Professional Control

Nine: The Rewards and Costs of Caring

Ten: Palliation: Masking Pain or Masking Death?

Methodological Appendix

References

Index
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Coping with Public Tragedy (Part IV "The Role of Hospice in Public Tragedy")
by Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, Kenneth J. Doka. 314 pgs.

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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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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part I: Dimensions of Public Tragedy

Chapter 1: What Makes a Tragedy Public?

Chapter 2: 9/11: a Grief Therapist's Journal

Chapter 3: Hurricane Andrew

Chapter 4: Looking Back at Columbine

Chapter 5: When a Public Figure Dies

Part II: Responses to Public Tragedy

Chapter 6: Loss, Grief, and Trauma in Public Tragedy

Chapter 7: Effects of Public Tragedy on First Responders

Chapter 8: Public Grief and the News Media

Chapter 9: Different Faiths, Different Perceptions of Public Tragedy

Chapter 10: Funeral Directors and Public Tragedy

Part III: Coping with Public Tragedy

Chapter 11: Critical Incident Stress Management and Other Crisis Counseling Approaches

Chapter 12: Talking to Children About Terrorism

Chapter 13: Schools, Children and Public Tragedy

Chapter 14: Meaning Making in the Wake of Public Tragedy

Chapter 15: Memorialization, Ritual, and Public Tragedy

Chapter 16: A Healing Ritual at Yankee Stadium

Chapter 17: Public Tragedy and the Arts

Chapter 18: Victim Advocacy in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Chapter 19: Lessons from Combat Veterans

Chapter 20: Workplace Interventions

Chapter 21: Public Tragedy and Complicated Mourning

Part IV: The Role of Hospice in Public Tragedy

Chapter 22: Collaborating with Relief Agencies: a Guide for Hospice

Chapter 23: Hospice: a Resource in Community Tragedies

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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
by John M. Stanley. 2 pgs.

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Oncology Social Workers' Attitudes toward Hospice Care and Referral Behavior, in Health and Social Work
by Janet E. Becker. 10 pgs.

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The Social Dimensions of AIDS: Method and Theory (Chap. Fourteen "Hospice Staff Response to Fear of AIDS")
by Douglas A. Feldman, Thomas M. Johnson. 280 pgs.

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Introduction

References

Part I Aids Social Research Strategies

Chapter One: Methodological Issues in Aids-Related Research

Chapter Two Applied Methodology: a Primer of Pitfalls and Opportunities in Aids Research

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Part II Social Epidemiology

Chapter Three: Behavior, Infection, and Immune Response: An Epidemiological Appro ach

Chapter Four the Case for a Haitian Origin of the Aids Epidemic

References

Chapter Five the Social Origins of Aids: Social Change, Sexual Behavior, and Disease Trends

Chapter Five the Social Origins of Aids: Social Change, Sexual Behavior, and Disease Trends

References

Part III Lifestyles and Behavioral Change

Chapter Six: Aids and Needle Sharing Within the Iv-Drug Use Subculture

Chapter Seven Gay Lifestyle Change and Aids: Preventive Health Care

References

Acknowledgments

Chapter Eight Aids Health Promotion and Clinically Applied Anthropology

Part IV Aids and the Media

Chapter Nine Illness and Deviance: the Response of the Press to Aids

References

Chapter Ten the Portrayal of Aids in the Media: an Analysis of Articles in the New York Times

Acknowledgments

References

Part V Health Beliefs and Behavior

Chapter Eleven Aids: a Psychosocial Perspective

References

Chapter Twelve: Explanatory Models for Aids

Chapter Thirteen: Fear of Aids and Its Effects on the Nation's Blood Supply

Part VI Impact of Aids on Health Care Delivery

Chapter Fourteen Hospice Staff Response to Fear of Aids

Conclusion

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Chapter Fifteen Ideology and Politics in the Control of Contagion: the Social Organization of Aids Care

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Conclusion

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