Choices in Palliative Care, 2007
Issues in Health Care Delivery

Coordinators: Blank Arthur, O'Mahony Sean

Language: English

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Choices in palliative care: issues in health care delivery (POD)
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Choices in Palliative Care brings together leading experts to spotlight core issues in the field and identify ways PC can fill gaps in current care systems. This far-sighted volume redefines palliative care as interdisciplinary and integrative, bridging acute and long-term care to respond to clients? evolving needs. Those teaching health service delivery courses will find this material especially useful.

Palliative Care in Acute Care Hospitals.- Palliative Care in Nursing Facilities.- Patient-Centered Palliative Care in the Home.- Hospice Care.- The Role of Cancer Rehabilitation in the Maintenance of Functional Integrity and Quality of Life.- HIV/AIDS and Palliative Care: Models of Care and Policy Issues.- Palliative Care and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.- Palliative Care and Chronic Heart Failure.- Palliative Care for Patients with Alzheimer's Dementia: Advance Care Planning Across Transition Points.- Children and Issues Around Palliative Care.- Palliative Care and the Elderly: Complex Case Management.- The Business of Palliative Medicine: Business Planning, Models of Care and Program Development.- Palliative Care and Quality Management: The Core Principles of Quality Improvement and their Utility in Designing Clinical Programs for End of Life Care and Complex Case Management Models.- Ethics and the Delivery of Palliative Care.

Will travel well with existing public health textbook titles, particularly those focusing on health services delivery

Fifty (50%) percent of all AIDS care in this country is done in palliative care settings. This book will travel well to all AIDS/HIV meetings Springer attends

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras