| Hospice and Palliative Care: The Essential Guide Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Health and Social Care; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Social Sciences; Mental Health; Allied Health; Nursing; Public Health Policy and Practice; Social Work and Social Policy; Medicine; Nursing; Sociology & Social Policy; Death Studies; Palliative and Supportive Care; Nursing Older People; Aging and Health; End of Life and Long Term Care; Gerontology; Anesthesiology; Specialist Care; Medical Sociology; The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters provide mental-health and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the hospice practice as well as discussions of challenges and the future direction of the hospice movement. Updates to the new edition include advances in spiritual assessment and care, treatment of prolonged and complicated grief, provision of interdisciplinary palliative care in limited-resource settings, significant discussion of assisted suicide, primary healthcare including oncology, and more. Staff and volunteers new to the field along with experienced care providers and those using hospice and palliative care services will find this essential reading. Stephen Connor, PhD, is the executive director of the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance based in London, UK. He has worked continuously in hospice and palliative care for the past 40 years as researcher, executive, educator, author, and licensed clinical medical psychologist. |