Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes : the Social Work Role
by
Bern-Klug, Mercedes.
Title
:
Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes : the Social Work Role
Author
:
Bern-Klug, Mercedes.
ISBN
:
9780231507073
Publication Information
:
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (xv, 360 pages) : illustrations.
Series
:
End-of-life care : a series
End-of-life care.
Abstract
:
The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illness experience, not just at the end of life. Because a majority of nursing home residents are older adults facing multiple, advanced chronic conditions, this book is grounded in the provision of palliative care-especially palliative psychosocial care. Yet its practice recommendations ca.
Subject Term
:
Medical social work -- United States.
Social work with older people -- United States.
Palliative treatment -- United States.
Nursing homes -- United States.
Added Author
:
Bern-Klug, Mercedes.
Electronic Access
:
Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 375214-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |