Key Concepts in Palliative Care (eBook)

Introduction - Moyra A Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse
Agencies: Resources for Adults with a Palliative Care Need in the UK - Helen Fruin
Attributes of Palliative Caring - Moyra A Baldwin
Caring for the Adult: 'A Reversal of Roles' - Virginia C Williams
Caring for the Carers - Sheila Payne
Caring for the Child with Palliative Care Needs - Yvonne Flood
Caring for the Older Person - Victoria Ridgway
Caring for Young People - Amanda Humphreys and Pat Rose
Communication - Jan Woodhouse
Concept of Death - Jill McCarthy
Coronial Process - Richard Griffith
Cultural Issues in Palliative Care - Shirley Firth
Death - Jane Quigley
Environment of Care: Palliative Care within the Acute Hospital Care Ward - John Costello
Finance Issues and the Organization of Palliative Care - Peter Hartland
Financial Aspects for Patients and Carers - Jan Woodhouse
Funerals - Jan Woodhouse
Good Death - Moyra A Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse
The Globalization of Palliative Care - Lynda Prescott
Holism - Moyra A Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood
Hospice Movement and Evolution of Palliative Care - Moyra A Baldwin
Information Technology - Dion Smyth
Legal and Ethical Issues in Palliative Care - Barbara Beard
Loss, Grief and Bereavement - Jan Woodhouse
Marginalized Groups - Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
Multidisciplinary Teams - Moyra A Baldwin
Organ Donation - Natalie A Pattison
Organizational Management of Palliative Care - Steve Kirk
Palliative Care and the Person with Cancer - Debbie Wyatt
Palliative Care for the Person with a Learning Disability - Sue Read
Palliative Care and the Person with Mental Ill-Health - Catherine Black and Julie Bailey-McHale
Palliative Care and the Person with a Non-Cancer Diagnosis - Andrea Dean
Palliative Care Education - Karen Manford-Walley
Patient Choices and Preferences in Palliative Care - Stephanie Neill and Dorothy Carter
Policy Drivers - Mzwandile A Mabhala
Quality Assurance and Palliative Care - Jill McCarthy
Reactions of Patients and Carers - Sue Phillips
Rehabilitation in Palliative Care - Claire Jones and Adrian Bunnell
Research in Palliative Care - Catherine Black
Resources and Information: Looking for Answers - Jan Woodhouse
Sexuality - Moyra A Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse
Stigma - Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
Symptom Management: Complementary and Alternative Medicine/Integrated Health - Joy Parkes and Sue Padmore
Symptom Management: Common Symptoms - Catherine Black
Symptom Management: Difficult/Complex Symptoms - Catherine Black
Symptom Management: Emergencies - Catherine Black
Symptom Management: The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) - Richard Latten, John Ellershaw and Deborah Murphy
Spirituality - Reverend Ian M Delinger
Stress and Palliative Care - Jan Woodhouse
Technology: Equipment Procurement - Sonya Currey, Janice Foster and Virginia C Williams
Value of Life - Moyra A Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood