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Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role

Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role

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Series: End-Of-Life Care: A

Aging & Elder CareMedical ReferencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0231132255
ISBN13: 9780231132251
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Feb 12 2010
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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 resident's 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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