Demystifying Hospice (eBook)

Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers

Karen J. Clayton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
184 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1495-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Hospice care helps make the end of life the best it can be, yet the experience can be both rewarding and stressful to those involved. Karen Clayton’s stories address end-of-life choices, palliative care, mixed feelings about hospice, care for the caregivers, managing dramatic incidents and fear, social isolation, saying goodbye, and remembering.

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Hospice care is available to patients and families dealing with terminal illness. People often do not avail themselves of hospice care because they don't understand what it entails. Many wait until their last few days to request this extraordinary comfort care instead of using the full six months available to them through Medicare and other insurance options. Demystifying Hospice describes through stories good news about end-of-life issues. Written from the perspective of a licensed social worker with experience in public and private hospitals, hospice, and the American Cancer Society, these first-hand accounts of patients, family members, hospice workers and others will lift spirits, touch hearts, and illustrate the advantages of hospice care. These are real-life examples of personalized comfort care, offered by an interdisciplinary team, where ever the patient lives. Each story addresses some aspect of helping families through the caregiving and grieving process, which are part-and-parcel of a serious illness, and offers comfort and understanding to readers who may be going through similar experiences. This book describes hope, healing, and support through difficult times.

Autor

Karen J. Clayton is a social worker and sociologist. Her writing interests focus currently on demystifying hospice to encourage patients, caregivers and other family members, educators, and administrators to better understand the practical workings of hospice and to use it in a timelier manner. Clayton is an active member of the Oak Harbor Writers Group, and the American Association of University Woman, Island County, Washington. She taught sociology and cross-cultural communication at the University of Texas, Tarrant County Junior College, Southwestern Adventist University, and La Sierra University, where she was also the Education Curator for the Stahl Center Museum of Culture (Riverside, CA).

Inhalt

WHAT IS HOSPICE and HOW DOES IT WORK?CHAPTER 1 FIRST VISITS BY THE SOCIAL WORKERCHAPTER 2 HOSPICE CARE AT HOMECHAPTER 3 CARING FOR THE CAREGIVERCHAPTER 4 HOSPICE IN A PLACE YOU CALL HOMECHAPTER 5 FINDING MEANINGCHAPTER 6 DRAMATIC CHALLENGESCHAPTER 7 SOCIAL ISOLATIONCHAPTER 8 SAYING GOODBYECHAPTER 9 REMEMBERINGCHAPTER 10 MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT END-OF-LIFE CARECHAPTER 11 MAKING GOOD END-OF-LIFE DECISIONSCHAPTER 12 REFLECTIONS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 8 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
• Schlagworte: caregiver • Caregiving • End of Life • End of life decisions • family and hospice • friend and hospice • hospice 4 stages of dying • hospice and medicare • Hospice and Palliative Care • hospice and palliative medicine • hospice at home • hospice benefits • Hospice Care • hospice caregiver • hospice diagnosis • hospice education • hospice evaluation • hospice good or bad • hospice grief • hospice grief counseling • hospice grief support • hospice history • hospice home • hospice hospital • hospice house • hospice medications • hospice nurse • hospice programs • hospice questions • hospice requirements • hospice social worker • hospice volunteer • medical decisions • terminal illness
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1495-X / 153811495X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1495-7 / 9781538114957