Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying by Martha L. Henderson (9780826119254)

Description - Improving Nursing Home Care of the Dying by Martha L. Henderson

With the support of the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute's "Project Death in America", the authors have developed an innovative educational programme to help nursing home staff provide competent and compassionate end-of-life care. The book examines eight topics in end-of-life and palliative care in a long-term care setting. Topics include: recognizing the final phase of life; grief and loss; advance care planning; choices about eating and drinking; pain management; emotional and spiritual care; and caring for the caregivers.

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