A Hospice Guide Book (eBook)

Hospice Care: a Wise Choice Providing Quality Comfort Care Through the End of Life's Journey

Dr. Curtis E. Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
192 Seiten
Inspiring Voices (Verlag)
978-1-4624-0013-3 (ISBN)

Infos

When you or a loved one are diagnosed with a terminal illness, you wonder what can be done to make life easier and more meaningful during the remaining time on earth. In A Hospice Guide Book, author Dr. Curtis E. Smith shows how the concept of hospice, which emphasizes the important provisions of comfort care through the end-of-life journey, can help terminal patients die a comfortable, peaceful death with dignity.A resource for families, patients, and health care providers, A Hospice Guide Book provides a thorough explanation of the hospice concept. It discusses the definition of hospice care and its origins; hospice fallacies, myths, and facts; alternative care modalities; the hospice team and its responsibilities; levels of care and treatment; pain and pain management; hospice residences; end of life care.A Hospice Guide Book presents a plethora of information about hospice, enabling those who could become hospice patients the opportunity to receive the benefit of expert comfort care; pain control management; symptom control; and emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support as they live with their terminal illness during the end-of-life journey and peacefully transition from this life to the next.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4624-0013-2 / 1462400132
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4624-0013-3 / 9781462400133