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Geriatric palliative care
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Physical Description: |
xxx, 430 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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Contents:
- Ch. 1. Variability in end-of-life care in the United States
- Ch. 2. Developmental challenges and opportunities for the "Growth": the inner life at the end of life
- Ch. 3. Assessing quality of life and quality of dying in the elderly: implications for clinical practice of palliative medicine
- Ch. 4. The place of love in the care of persons with advanced dementia
- Ch. 5. Artificial nutrition and hydration
- Ch. 6. Age, rationing, and palliative care
- Ch. 7. Ethical aspects of geriatric palliative care
- Ch. 8. Respecting diversity
- Ch. 9. Frailty and its implications for care
- Ch. 10. Heart disease
- Ch. 11. Cancer
- Ch. 12. Stroke: prognosis, treatment, and rehabilitation
- Ch. 13. Dementia and neurodegenerative diseases
- Ch. 14. Chronic lung disease and lung cancer
- Ch. 15. End-stage renal disease and discontinuation of dialysis
- Ch. 16. Pain
- Ch. 17. Dyspnea
- Ch. 18. Gastrointestinal symptoms
- Ch. 19. Fatigue
- Ch. 20. Delirium, anxiety, and depression
- Ch. 21. Advance care planning for frail, older persons
- Ch. 22. Doctor-patient communication
- Ch. 23. Decision making for the cognitively impaired
- Ch. 24. Can we make the health-care system work?
- Ch. 25. Palliative care in the nursing home
- Ch. 26. Family caregivers: burdens and opportunities
- Ch. 27. Home car for frail, older adults
- Ch. 28. Hospital-based palliative care.