Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes : the Social Work Role /

The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bern-Klug, Mercedes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Colección:End-of-life care.
Temas:
Medical social work > United States.
Social work with older people > United States.
Palliative treatment > United States.
Nursing homes > United States.
Palliative Care > methods
Nursing Homes
Social Work > methods
Service social médical > États-Unis.
Soins palliatifs > États-Unis.
Établissements de soins, de cure, etc. > États-Unis.
Établissements de soins, de cure, etc.
nursing homes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Medical social work
Nursing homes
Palliative treatment
Social work with older people
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The need to extend the reach of palliative psychosocial care to nursing home residents with advanced chronic illness / Mercedes Bern-Klug
  • The structure and process of advanced chronic illness and palliative care in nursings homes / Sarah Thompson and Lisa Church
  • Paying for advanced chronic illness and hospice care in America's nursing homes / Michael J. Klug
  • Trends in the characteristics of nursing homes and residents / Mercedes Bern-Klug
  • Anticipating and managing common medical challenges encountered at the end of life / Ann Allegre
  • Identifying and addressing the psychosocial, social, spiritual, and existential issues affecting nursing home residents at the end of life / Jean C. Munn
  • Identifying and addressing family members' psychosocial, spiritual, and existential issues related to having a loved one living and dying in a nursing home / Patricia J. Kolb
  • Identifying and addressing ethical issues in advanced chronic illness and at the end of life / Charles E. Gessert and Don F. Reynolds
  • Final discharge planning: rituals related to the death of a nursing home resident / Peggy Sharr and Mercedes Bern-Klug
  • Grief, self-care, and staff-care: repeated loss in the nursing home environment / Sara Sanders and Patti Anewalt
  • The future of palliative psychosocial care for nursing home residents with advanced chronic illness / Mercedes Bern-Klug.

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