Transforming palliative care in nursing homes [electronic resource] : the social work role / edited by Mercedes Bern-Klug.
| Uniform Title: | End-of-life care.
|
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
c2010.
|
| Series: | End-of-life care.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Variant Title: |
Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 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.