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DESCRIPTION
This new book provides a valuable resource for practicing nurses at all levels
in the health care continuum who care for older adults at the end of life. The
focus of the book is on enhancing the quality of life for older adult patients
and families who have progressive, incurable illnesses.
KEY FEATURES
- Focuses on quality end-of-life nursing care and its impact from a palliative
care perspective.
- Addresses active and compassionate care therapies to enhance physical,
psychological, social, and spiritual domains of life.
- Explores the spiritual, social, and psychological aspects of key nursing
competencies at the end of life and progresses to the more evidence-based
information and interventions related to pain, symptom management, disease
progression, and care of the dying elder.
- Includes Case Studies which help put the content into a more humanistic
perspective.
- Provides Evidence-Based Practice boxes that apply current research to findings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Promoting Quality of Life During the Dying Process
1. Cultural and Spiritual Backgrounds
2. Death and an Aging Society
3. Community Based Palliative Care
4. Palliation and End of Life Care Across Health Care Settings
5. Ethical and Legal Aspects of Dying and Health Care Resource Allocation
6. Communication Issues in Advance Care Planning
7. Advance Directives: Older Adults with Dementia
8. Family Caregivers: Burdens and Opportunities
9. Suffering, Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
Part 2: Disease Related Palliative Care Nursing
10. End-Stage Heart Disease
11. Cancer
12. Stroke, Coma, and Brain Death
13. Dementia and Neurodegenerative Illnesses
14. End-Stage Renal Disease and Discontinuation of Dialysis
15. Chronic Lung Disease
16. End-Stage Liver Disease
Part 3: Symptom Management and Related Issues
17. Dyspnea
18. Anxiety, Depression, and Delirium
19. Gastrointestinal Symptoms
20. Fatigue and Weakness
21. Pain Assessment and Management
22. Skin Care Needs of Palliative Patients
23. Nutrition and Hydration
24. Polypharmacy
25. Peri-Death Nursing Care
AUTHOR INFORMATION
By Marianne LaPorte Matzo, PhD, APRN, GNP, BC, FAAN; and Deborah Witt Sherman,
PhD, APRN, ANP, BC, FAAN, Associate Professor, Program Coordinator of the Advanced
Practice Palliative Care Master's and Post-Master's Certificate Programs, and
Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar, New York University School of Education,
Division of Nursing
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