Palliative Medicine

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the...

This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older pe...

This book examines the central structures in medicinemedical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authorityfrom the perspect...

Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide, providing exhaustive information on nutrition and diet...

This book gives readers an understanding of the theoretical foundations of social support communication along with practical tools to ethically and...

A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general -- and the stages-o...

When clinicians communicate effectively, patients retain more information, have higher trust and a better quality of life. Such a patient-centred a...

This book provides a new outlook on the practice of palliative care worldwide. All five continents are represented in this book by global leaders i...

Strong professional identities are key to healthy interprofessional teams. When each professional knows their distinctive role within the team, mis...

I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this critical area of work. Thank you, D...

The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer offers a succinct, all-in-one introduction to the full gamut of compassion, from the evolutional, biolo...

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Accessible and instructive,Palliative Careguides and inspires health social workers to incorporate palliative care principles into their current cl...

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by dis...

Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must underst...

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care is the fifth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series. Chapters address how to condu...

This book helps nursing and healthcare students to prepare for the challenges of working with the increasing number of patients requiring palliativ...

Soul Midwives are holistic and spiritual companions to the dying. They support and recognise the individual needs of the dying person and help them...

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness. Nurses can d...

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organization...

Death is the destiny we all share. This will not change. But the way we die, which had been the same for many generations, has changed drastically ...

All physicians are involved in the management of pain at some level or the other, but of the various specialties and health professions, orthopedic...

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook. It ...