Provides practical support and advice on areas such as choices of treatment, pain control, counseling and religious beliefs. This book features a section on the care of the bereaved with a list of helpful organisations that can be contacted. It helps nurses and other healthcare professionals to implement a partnership of care.

Since 1997, when Oregon enacted a law permitting physician-assisted suicide, the public debate over end-of-life issues has turned in a new direction. The result has been renewed emphasis on hospice, palliative care, the spiritual needs of the dying, and on advanced directives to settle legal matters. This book addresses these four critical issues.

Looks at the history of hospice, its philosophy of care, and the contemporary issues it faces. This book explains the role of each member of the hospice team in the hope that palliative care, based upon the needs and preferences of each patient and family, can be provided.

End of Life in Care Homes describes what happens in nursing and residential care homes when a resident is dying, how carers cope, and the practical, health and emotional challenges that carers face on top of their day-to-day work. Based on detailed research from both the UK and US, the book shows how the situation can be improved.

A comprehensive, multimedia course giving an overview of the subject of end of life care. It helps define pain, describe how pain affects the individual at end-of-life, identify common misconceptions and facts about pain, discuss the physiology of pain, identify the various types of pain, describe pain behaviours, and more.

This book tells the story of a caregiver for a person who is seriously ill of cancer. It is of help to both the caregiver and the person suffering from illness. It offers physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual suggestions to help with the process of the disease, and, if it comes to that, dying. The book's information is valuable as a guide for any caregiver helping another with any serious,