Caring for the Family Caregiver
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
This remarkable work reveals the plight of the family caregiver in chronic illness through the prism of communication. Examining the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the ...
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Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of ...
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Compassion: The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Philip J. Larkin
Compassion is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been explored from a range of cultural, philosophical, theological, and sociological perspectives. It can be considered a ...
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Drugs in Palliative Care (2 ed.)
Andrew Dickman
Providing an overview of pharmacology and prescribing advice, this second edition contains over 160 drug monographs, presented in an A-Z format. Fully revised and updated, this detailed yet ...
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End of Life Care in the ICU (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From advanced disease to bereavement
Graeme Rocker, Kathleen Puntillo, Élie Azoulay, and Judith Nelson (eds)
End of life care in the ICU presents its own unique challenges, and this resource highlights real clinical issues which need to be addressed if quality palliative care within ICUs is to be ...
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Gender in Psycho-Oncology
Youngmee Kim and Matthew J. Loscalzo (eds)
As cancer treatment has evolved toward precision medicine, psychosocial research and practices for cancer patients and their family members have also raised awareness of the need for a ...
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Geriatric Palliative Care
Emily Chai (ed.) , Diane Meier (ed.) , Jane Morris (ed.) , and Suzanne Goldhirsch
The growing geriatric population has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties, but palliative medicine lacks the ...
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Geriatric Psycho-Oncology: A Quick Reference on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Symptom Management
Jimmie C. Holland, Talia Weiss Wiesel, Christian J. Nelson, Andrew J. Roth, and Yesne Alici (eds)
Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive guide that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer ...
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Heart Failure (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
Miriam Johnson, Karen Hogg, and James Beattie
Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible. In easily digestible summaries, this resource presents practical advice about how and when to integrate ...
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Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards
Sriram Yennurajalingam and Eduardo Bruera (eds)
In the United States, the subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine has seen rapid growth since it was recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. During the past decade, ...
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Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care
David Hui and Eduardo Bruera (eds)
Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, ...
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Kidney Disease (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From advanced disease to bereavement (2 ed.)
Edwina A. Brown, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, and Emma Murphy
This resource provides practical guidance on end of life management for patients with renal disease. It is presented in easily accessible, bullet point style, and is illustrated with case ...
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Landmark Papers in Pain: Seminal Papers in Pain with Expert Commentaries
Paul Farquhar-Smith, Pierre Beaulieu, and Sian Jaggar (eds)
Landmark Papers in Pain offers a comprehensive inventory of over 80 key studies in pain medicine from the last 100 years. Pain medicine, a relatively new specialty, has proven ...
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Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Treatment Manual
William S. Breitbart and Shannon R. Poppito
The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "meaning" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been ...
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Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting: Finding Meaning and Hope in the Face of Suffering
William S. Breitbart (ed.)
There is an evolution taking place regarding the nature and scope of the clinical goals of psychotherapeutic or counseling interventions in the palliative care setting. Meaning-Centered ...
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Oxford Case Histories in Oncology
Thankamma Ajithkumar, Adrian Harnett, and Tom Roques (eds)
Oxford Case Histories in Oncology contains 30 well-structured cases from clinical practice, giving a comprehensive coverage of the diagnostic and management dilemmas in oncology. The cases ...
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Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (3 edn)
Max Watson, Stephen Ward, Nandini Vallath, Jo Wells, and Rachel Campbell (eds)
The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is a concise summary of current Palliative Care Practice written by those actively involved in the care of patients in the last phase of life. While ...
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children (2 ed.)
Ann Goldman, Richard Hain, and Stephen Liben
Comprehensive in scope and definitive in authority, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new practices, current epidemiological data and the evolving models that support ...
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (5 ed.)
Nathan Cherny, Marie Fallon, Stein Kaasa, Russell K. Portenoy, and David C. Currow (eds)
This new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine has been thoroughly updated to offer a truly global perspective in this field, and new sections include information on ...
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Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Mark R Cobb, Christina M Puchalski, and Bruce Rumbold
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research, practice and policy, and healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address ...
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