Transforming Palliative Care In the Nursing Home : The Social Work Role
By: Bern-Klug, Mercedes E., Ph.d Msw Ma (Edited by).
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. Published: 15/02/2010. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
Paperback. Sourced from U.S.A.
This book brings together experts from nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide insights and information about palliative care in nursing homes. It employs a broad definition of palliative care as comfort care that is appropriate across the illness experience and not limited to 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-for people with advanced chronic illness who live in nursing homes. Yet its practice and recommendations can also be applied to other long-term care settings, such as assisted living.Mercedes Bern-Klug combines scholarship with practice wisdom. Each of her chapters mixes a review of scholarly literature with insights gleaned from clinical practice. Chapter topics comply with the eight domains of palliative care developed by the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Some focus on care of the resident, while others concern the resident's family.
One section covers self-care for nursing home staff members, while another discusses nursing home rituals marking the death of a resident. Bern-Klug concludes with an overview of the factors that are likely to affect the future of palliative for people with advanced chronic illness. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0231132255/9780231132251
TITLE: Transforming Palliative Care in the Nursing Home
CONTRIBUTORS: Bern-Klug, Mercedes E., Ph.d Msw Ma (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Columbia University Press
PUBLISHER: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLICATION DATE: 15/02/2010
SUBJECT: Society, Society, Adults & Elderly, Welfare
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
ILLUSTRATIONS: 1 color illus., 19 line drawings
CONTENTS: Foreword: Looking Back on the Nursing Home Experience of My Mother, by Msgr. Charles Fahey Foreword, by Virginia Richardson Introduction, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 1. The Need to Extend the Reach of Palliative Psychosocial Care to Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 2. The Structure and Process of Advanced Chronic Illness and Palliative Care in Nursing Homes, by Sarah Thompson and Lisa Church 3. Paying for Advanced Chronic Illness and Hospice Care in America's Nursing Homes, by Michael J. Klug 4. Trends in the Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Residents, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 5. Anticipating and Managing Common Medical Challenges Encountered at the End of Life, by Ann Allegre 6. Identifying and Addressing the Psychosocial, Social, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Affecting Nursing Home Residents at the End of Life, by Jean C. Munn 7. Identifying and Addressing Family Members' Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Related to Having a Loved One Living and Dying in a Nursing Home, by Patricia J. Kolb 8. Identifying and Addressing Ethical Issues in Advanced Chronic Illness and at the End of Life, by Charles E. Gessert and Don F. Reynolds 9. Final Discharge Planning: Rituals Related to the Death of a Nursing Home Resident, by Peggy Sharr and Mercedes Bern-Klug 10. Grief, Self-Care, and Staff-Care: Repeated Loss in the Nursing Home Environment, by Sara Sanders and Patti Homan 11. The Future of Palliative Psychosocial Care for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness, by Mercedes Bern-Klug Appendix Index
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