Palliative Care For Older People in Care Homes

Jo Hockley is currently research fellow/clinical nurse specialist at St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh. She has worked within the hospice movement since 1979 but has spent most of her energies disseminating palliative care into the acute hospital sector. She has set up two hospital-based palliative care teams in the UK and has published widely on this subject and other practice issues in palliative care. She is currently working on a collaborative action research project with independent nursing homes in Edinburgh developing palliative care at the end of life. David Clark is Professor of Medical Sociology within the Academic Palliative Medicine Unit of the University of Sheffield. He has written widely on the sociology of religion, family life and end-of-life care and he has been involved in research and teaching in palliative care since 1989. His current interests include the history of hospice, palliative care and related fields; policy development and international issues in the growth of palliative care; and palliative care ethics.

Series editor's preface
Introduction
Historical and policy contexts
Assessment of need in care homes
Loss and change
Spiritual care in care homes
perceptions and practice
Caring for people with dementia at the end of life
The role of the physician in nursing home care in The Netherlands
Ethics and end-of-life decision making
The performance of the hour of death
Changing care practices
beyond education and training to 'practice development'
Organizational structures for enhancing standards of palliative care
Conclusion
References
Index.