Palliative Care for Care Homes
eBook - PDF

Palliative Care for Care Homes

A Practical Handbook

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Palliative Care for Care Homes

A Practical Handbook

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About This Book

Care home workers increasingly work with people nearing the end of their lives, including people with medically complex conditions. However, many do not have a medical background and find that practical advice on how to address these people's very specific needs is scarce. In this book, Christine Reddall draws on almost four decades of nursing expe

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9781785230479
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. About the author
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Dedication
  11. 1: Introduction
  12. 2: What is palliative care?
  13. 3: What is a Macmillan nurse?
  14. 4: What is a hospice?
  15. 5: What is cancer?
  16. 6: What is a syringe driver?
  17. 7: Symptom control
  18. 8: Breathlessness (dyspnoea)
  19. 9: Constipation
  20. 10: Fatigue
  21. 11: Mouth problems
  22. 12: Nausea and vomiting
  23. 13: Pain
  24. 14: Difficulty with eating and drinking
  25. 15: Other symptoms
  26. 16: Difficult questions
  27. 17: Spiritual distress and palliative care
  28. 18: The dying process
  29. 19: A good death
  30. 20: After death
  31. 21: Acute medical events in palliative care
  32. 22: Acute terminal events in palliative care
  33. 23: Morphine and pain patches
  34. 24: Dementia
  35. 25: Palliative care for people with learning disabilities
  36. 26: The unexpected
  37. 27: Older people in care homes
  38. 28: Benefits and grants in palliative care
  39. 29: Care pathways in palliative care
  40. 30: Advance care planning
  41. 31: Palliative care education
  42. 32: Looking after yourself
  43. Further reading, useful websites and other resources
  44. Initiatives to enhance patient care and carer support in care homes
  45. Index