Description: Transforming Palliative Care in the Nursing Home : The Social Work Role, Paperback by Bern-klug, Mercedes (EDT), ISBN 0231132255, ISBN-13 9780231132251, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 illness experience, not just at the end of life.
Because a majority of nursing home residents are older adults facing multiple, advanced chronic conditions, this book is grounded in the provision of palliative care-especially palliative psychosocial care. Yet its practice recommendations can also be applied to other long-term care settings, such as assisted living. The contributors combine scholarship with practical wisdom in each chapter, mixing reviews of scholarly literature with insights gleaned from clinical practice. Chapter topics comply with the eight domains of palliative care developed by the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Some focus on care of the resident, while others concern the residents family. A special section addresses self-care for nursing home staff members, and another discusses nursing home rituals to mark the death of a resident. Bern-Klug concludes with an overview of the factors that will shape the future of palliative care for advanced chronic illness.
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Book Title: Transforming Palliative Care in the Nursing Home : The Social Wor
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Publication Name: Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes : the Social Work Role
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Social Work, Nursing Home Care, Gerontology, Nursing / Palliative Care
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Mercedes Bern-Klug
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: End-Of-Life Care: a Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
