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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.
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