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Palliative & Nursing Home Care

Policies, Challenges & Quality of Life

By: Samuel E. Plunkett (Editor)

Hardcover

Published: 1st January 2011
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This book examines the policies, challenges, and quality of life issues in palliative care and nursing home care facilities. Some topics discussed in this compilation include: identifying the palliative care needs of home-based dementia patients and their caregivers; the functions of sexuality in older adults living in nursing homes and increasing awareness of staff and family members to this issue; haematology and non-oncological respiratory patients in palliative care; the changing role of the licensed practical nurse in nursing home care; obese nursing residents and their special considerations; gynaecological cancer and palliative cancer care; and, neonatal palliative care.

Preface
Identifying the Palliative Care Needs of Home-Based People with End-Stage Dementia & their Carers
Mental Distress in Children Orphaned by AIDS: The Efficacy of Natural Mentoring as Palliative Care
Quality of Sexual Life of Nursing Home Residents
Back to the Future: A Research Journey in Haematology & Palliative Care
The Changing Role of the Licensed Practical Nurse in Nursing Home Care
Special Considerations for Providing Care for Obese Nursing Home Residents
Palliative Care & Dementia: Is a Good Death Possible at Home?
Where & How Non-Oncological Respiratory Patients Die: A Palliative Answer
Can Data Envelopment Analysis Be Used to Study Performance Efficiency in Nursing Homes?
Quality of Life for Older Persons Living in Nursing Homes: A Cross-Sectional Study
Neonatal Palliative Care: New Practice, New Challenges
Depression & Mood Distress among Female Patients with Gynaecological Cancer in a Programme of Palliative Cancer Care
Index
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ISBN: 9781611224177
ISBN-10: 1611224179
Series: Series: Public Health in the 21st Century Ser.
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 221
Published: 1st January 2011
Dimensions (cm): 18.0 x 26.0  x 25.4
Weight (kg): 0.558