Prelude To Hospice

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813593920
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Hospice written by Emily K. Abel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081359393X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Hospice written by Emily K. Abel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593956
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Hospice written by Emily K. Abel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.

Author : Mary E. O'Dowd
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978803680
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Junctures in Women's Leadership written by Mary E. O'Dowd and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies of women leaders in public health and health care over nearly 150 years. Extraordinarily relevant to current public discourse, topics include: the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, disease prevention and the Affordable Care Act. Their leadership lessons can be applied to a broad array of disciplines.

Author : Anne Pennington Grenfell
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
ISBN 13 : 1462405827
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Eternity written by Anne Pennington Grenfell and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRELUDE to ETERNITY: A Journey to Beyond Death is an intimate, moving and compelling portrait of a couples travels through lifes greatest challenge: preparing for its ending. The story offers convincing evidence that physical death is just a preface to the next level of existence. Empowered by their deep love for each other, Pascoe and Annes search for meaning leads them to explore the deepest dimensions of spiritual discovery. You will share their remarkable experience in mans eternal quest for understanding and peace as they face the unknown. You will tread the stony path with them through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. And youll find yourself rejoicing with them when they emerge triumphant with the assurance that life continues beyond death. Everyone who has endured the passing of a loved one will identify with this intensely human portrayal about conquering the defeat of despair and finding security in the knowledge that life does not end, it only changes

Author : Stephen R. Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135849196
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospice and Palliative Care written by Stephen R. Connor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of hospice, as well as the challenges faced by and the direction of the hospice movement. This book provides chapters that address key topics such as the goals and importance of community involvement, outcome measurement, and the manner in which hospices address death, grief, and bereavement.

Author : Jack McKay Zimmerman
Publisher : Urban & Schwarzenberg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospice written by Jack McKay Zimmerman and published by Urban & Schwarzenberg. This book was released on 1986 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Farber Post
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416573
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees written by Linda Farber Post and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can dedicated ethics committees members fulfill their complex roles as moral analysts, policy reviewers, and clinical consultants? The Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. Each organization must have a standing health care ethics committee to maintain its status. These interdisciplinary committees are composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested citizens. Their main function is to review and provide resolutions for specific, individual patient care problems. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to adequately negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees was the first book of its kind to address the myriad responsibilities faced by ethics committees, including education, case consultation, and policy development. Adopting an accessible tone and using a case study format, the authors explore serious issues involving informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, the end of life, palliative care, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics. The authors have thoroughly updated the content and expanded their focus in the second edition to include ethics committees in other clinical settings, such as long-term care facilities, small community hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and hospices. They have added three new chapters that address reproduction, disability, and the special needs of the elder population, and they provide additional specialized policies and procedures on the book’s website. This guide is an essential resource for all health care ethics committee members.

Author : Andrea Sankar
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421447746
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying at Home written by Andrea Sankar and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide for those caring for a loved one nearing the end of life. Many people seek the comfort and dignity of dying at home. Advances in pharmacology and hospice care allow the dying to remain at home relatively free of pain and symptoms, but navigating professional services, insurance coverage, and family dynamics often compounds the complexity of this process. Extensively updated and revised, this third edition of Andrea Sankar's Dying at Home: A Family Guide for Caregiving provides essential information that caregivers and dying persons need to navigate this journey. Featuring contributions by professionals and personal stories from in-depth case studies of family caregivers, this guide discusses the challenges, resources, benefits, and barriers to care at home. With updates on advance care planning, developments in palliative care medicine, and the availability of legally assisted dying, this edition discusses how to: • Arrange medical care, nursing, and ancillary therapies • Understand costs, sources of financial support, and insurance coverage • Collaborate with health professionals in the home • Assist in implementing pain management techniques • Find social and spiritual support, as well as self-care for caregivers • Handle family dynamics and legal matters • Collaborate to make complex care and treatment decisions • Navigate the process of dying and caring for the body after death

Author : Timothy W. Kirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199944954
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospice Ethics written by Timothy W. Kirk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U. S. healthcare system, a trend that is expected to accelerate as the median age of the population continues to rise over the next three decades. Despite over forty percent of the population now dying while on hospice care, very little has been published on the ethical opportunities and challenges experienced in the everyday lives of those giving and receiving hospice care. This book is the first comprehensive collection devoted to analyzing distinctive ethical issues arising in the delivery of hospice care and designed to promote best ethical practices for hospice care professionals and organizations. Thirteen newly commissioned chapters by seventeen hospice experts populate three thematic sections of the book, each devoted to an aspect of the intersection between ethics and hospice care. Contributors have unique qualifications and abilities to articulate and respond to ethically significant phenomena that -- while not always unique to hospice care -- arise in especially poignant and complex ways when caring for patients enrolled in hospice. As the shift or return to home-based care at the end of life continues, hospice professionals and programs will be faced with a broader array of terminal illnesses, cultural beliefs and traditions, and patient and family values than ever before. Hospice will no longer be tailored solely to the final stage of cancer, but will need to accommodate patients whose illnesses are variable in their progression and whose treatment plans include many medical options. The ethical orientations and frameworks that have served hospice for the past 50 years will need to be supplemented and refined if hospice is to fulfill this changing social mission. Hospice Ethics explores a new paradigm for hospice ethics from a multi-disciplinary and provides an important educational resource for professional training in end of life care.