Terminal Care category: 140 books
Psychosocial Aspects of End-Stage Renal Disease
Issues of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This thoughtful new book presents strategies for helping end-stage renal disease patients and their families deal with the psychosocial aspects of the chronic long-term illness. Technological advances in the treatment of this disease have offered much hope for improved quality in living which has...
Pediatric Psycho-Oncology
A Quick Reference on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Symptom Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Pediatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of adolescents living with cancer and their families. Chapters cover a wide range of topics including psychological aspects of particular pediatric...
Hospice
The Serene Warmth of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Cindy Marks is a hospice nurse who has unfortunately witnessed heartbreaking fear and desperation in her patients and family members as they attempt to come to grips with death. In her guide to facing death peacefully, Marks reveals what she has learned while providing comfort and enlightenment. Death...
by Tom Preston
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Death comes for us all, and the desire to ease into that death is as ancient as humankind. The idea that sometimes it is better to die quickly and in control of that deathrather than linger in pain and misery once impending death is certainhas troubled yet comforted humankind. In Doctor, Please Help...
Sky Above Clouds
Finding Our Way through Creativity, Aging, and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Through their scientific research and clinical practice, husband and wife team Gene D. Cohen and Wendy L. Miller uncovered new clues about how the aging mind can build resilience and continue growth, even during times of grave illness, thus setting aside the traditional paradigm of aging as a time...
Geriatric Psycho-Oncology
A Quick Reference on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Symptom Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer and their families. Chapters cover a wide range of topics including screening tools and interventions, psychiatric...
Et l'éthique dans tout ça ?
Réflexion sur l'éthique dans le domaine médical
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Quelle est la place de l'éthique dans le domaine des sciences médicales ?
Au-delà des thèmes conflictuels qui viennent à l'esprit quand on évoque son nom, l'éthique ne se trouve-t-elle pas au cœur même du soin ?
Que se passe-t-il dans l'intimité d'une consultation médicale...
On the origin of inflammation of the veins
and of the causes, consequences, and treatment of purulent deposits
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Since the period when Humoral Pathology fell into merited disrepute, comparatively few attempts have been made, to define with any degree of accuracy, the conditions under which morbid secretions may find their way into the circulation. The diseases produced by the presence of vitiated fluids in the...
by Sheila Hollins, Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book tells the story of John, who has an intellectual disability. John is dying. The pictures follow him in his illness and his final days. They are designed to help the reader make sense of what is happening to them or someone they know who is ill. The pictures help them to ask questions or share their concerns.
Ethische Reflexion in der Pflege
Konzepte – Werte – Phänomene
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Pflegerisches Handeln begründen, reflektieren und professionell entscheiden!
Dieses Buch richtet sich an Ethikberater, Pflegende, Lehrende, Studenten von Pflege- und Gesundheitsstudiengängen und Weiterbildungsteilnehmer und bietet konkrete Unterstützung bei der ethischen Begründung von...
Repetitorium Palliativmedizin
Zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung Palliativmedizin
Language: German
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Das vorliegende Buch orientiert sich an den Weiterbildungsinhalten für die Zusatzbezeichnung „Palliativmedizin“. Ein Herausgeber- und Autorenteam aus der Praxis der ambulanten und stationären Palliativversorgung vermittelt prägnant und praxisnah die wesentlichen Aspekte für die Begleitung...
Fin de vie
Pourquoi les chrétiens ne peuvent pas se taire
Language: French
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Ces dernières années, on a assisté à une lutte intense pour repousser sans cesse la mort grâce au progrès médical. Face à ce que nos contemporains ont perçu comme une dérive vers une fin de vie « surmédicalisée », est alors apparue une nouvelle revendication : celle de l’euthanasie.
Sur...
by Gérard Terrier
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Les témoignages recueillis dans cet ouvrage sont empreints d’émotions, de sentiments. Ils traduisent la façon dont ont été vécues la maladie, l’hospitalisation, la phase terminale, voire l’agonie et la mort du malade. Ils émanent de proches mais aussi de malades eux-mêmes. Ils nous ont...
Leben im Sterben
Liebevolle Begleitung in der letzten Lebensphase
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Völlig unabhängig von der Tatsache, ob wir uns mit dem Thema Sterben auseinandersetzen wollen oder nicht, betrifft es unweigerlich uns alle. So sicher wie wir in der nächsten Sekunde wieder einen Atemzug tun werden, so sicher werden wir auch eines Tages sterben. Wer in einem Hospiz arbeitet, ist...