Palliative care for older people in care homes / edited by Jo Hockley and David Clark.
Material type: TextSeries: Facing deathPublication details: Philadelphia, Pa. ; Buckingham : Open University Press, 2002.Description: 191 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0335210619 (hbk.)
- 0335210600 (pbk.)
- 616.029 21 H6859 2002
- R726.8 .P3429 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Ian Philp -- 1. Historical and policy contexts / Sue Davies and Jane Seymour -- 2. Assessment of need in care homes / Deborah Parker and Alison McLeod -- 3. Loss and change / Jan Reed, Glenda Cook and Chris Burridge -- 4. Spiritual care in care homes: perceptions and practice / Helen Orchard -- 5. Caring for people with dementia at the end of life / Sylvia Cox and Ailsa Cook -- 6. The role of the physician in nursing home care in The Netherlands / Frans Baar and Herman van der Kloot Meijburg -- 7. Ethics and end-of-life decision-making / Jo Vallis and Kenneth Boyd -- 8. The performance of the hour of death / Carol Komaromy -- 9. Changing care practices: beyond education and training to 'practice development' / Katherine Froggatt -- 10. Organizational structures for enhancing standards of palliative care / Jo Hockley -- Conclusion / Jo Hockley and David Clark.
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