Advertisement
| end of life care questions and answers: Hospice and Palliative Care Virginia F. Sendor, Patrice M. O'Connor, 1997 Addresses many commonly expressed concerns of terminally ill patients and their families. Explains what hospice and palliative care is and the services offered to patients and families. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Medical Guidelines for Determining Prognosis in Selected Non-Cancer Diseases National Hospice Organization Standards, Medical, 1996-01-01 |
| end of life care questions and answers: Living at the End of Life Karen Whitley Bell, 2018-01-02 An updated edition of the most respected book on hospice care—for both patients and caregivers. This warm and informative resource on hospice and other end-of-life care options now gets an update. It receives a new preface and revised guidance on elders who need more long-term care and support, recommendations on pain medications, and advice for those living extended lives with treatable, but not curable, diseases. Written by a hospice nurse, Living at the End of Life reassures us that this difficult time also offers an opportunity to explore and rediscover a richer meaning in life. Drawing on her years of experience, Bell has created a comprehensive, insightful guide to every aspect of hospice care and the final stages of life. For people in hospice, as well as their friends and families, this is an indispensable and trustworthy source of comfort and spiritual healing. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Farewell Edward Creagan, 2018-08-21 Being present at the bedside-and even at the moment of death-can become an experience embedded in the minds and souls of family members for generations. It is a deeply emotional time, one of relief and sadness. Anyone who has taken that final journey with a loved one will never, ever forget those moments. Dr. Edward Creagan has dedicated his life to death. And now this esteemed medical doctor examines death, not only from a medical standpoint, but from an acutely emotional perspective as events beyond our control unfold. For more than forty years, he has been at the bedside with patients, addressing the end-of-life questions patients and their families ask. This book is about navigating those last days, at the bedside, and saying farewell with hope, love, and compassion. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Dying Well Ira Byock, 1998-03-01 From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well. Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, medical drama, and conflict. Through the true stories of patients, he shows us that a lot of important emotional work can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. It is a companion for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to loved ones—and how to make the end of life as meaningful and enriching as the beginning. Ira Byock is also the author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Learning How to Let Go Mary Beth Willi, 2018-08-26 When the doctor gives you a potentially terminal diagnosis what happens? They talk all about chemotherapy, radiation, or treatment...how we are going to fight this. And that's fine because there is a time to fight but there will also come a time to let go. Let's face it, no one sits down with you and talks about the dying process, gives written information about anything to do with dying, or even let you know where you can find this information if you should need it. This Bestseller is designed to quickly teach you the signs and symptoms of the dying process. It is invaluable in helping you deliver the best care possible to a loved one, or patient. As Author Mary Beth Willi states, I have had the privilege of being a hospice nurse since 1998 and this is what my patients have taught me. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Essentials of Palliative Care Nalini Vadivelu, Alan David Kaye, Jack M. Berger, 2012-11-28 Essentials of Palliative Care is a to-the-point, clinically oriented resource for all members of the multidisciplinary palliative care team and trainees. It covers practical clinical topics, including assessment of the patient and pain and symptom management, and practical non-medical topics central to providing effective palliative care, including psychological management, guidance on how to help patients and their families through the many healthcare decision points they face, and sensitivity to the goals and culture of the patient. Review questions, with detailed answers, provide a convenient way for readers to test their knowledge. Features: · Concise, comprehensive, clinically focused · Multiple choice review questions, with detailed answers · Expert contributors from leading institutions · Coordination of care by palliative care team a major focus |
| end of life care questions and answers: Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN) Exam Review Patricia Moyle Wright, PhD, MBA, MSN, CRNP, ACNS-BC, CHPN, CNE, FPCN, 2019-10-16 The first study guide for the CHPN® certification exam! This must-have study guide for nurses seeking to obtain Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN®) status provides state-of-the-art information about all aspects of this specialty. It features 300 carefully selected Q&As that offer a detailed rationale for each question, along with tips and strategies to promote exam mastery and frequently asked questions about the exam. Additional questions are arranged in chapters mirroring the exam blueprint and the number of questions for each category correlates with the exam matrix. Case-based scenarios embodied within the questions facilitate the application of knowledge in a problem-solving format. A complete practice exam is included as well. Brief topical reviews address hospice and palliative care nursing practice in all of its dimensions, including physical, spiritual, and psychosocial. The resource highlights information that forms the basis of end-of-life care, such as communication and family-centered care. Additionally, high-level skills used by hospice and palliative care nurses, such as drug and dosage conversion and the use of infusion therapy, are covered as well. Key Features: Delivers the first study guide for hospice and palliative nurses seeking CHPN® certification Provides concise, up-to-date knowledge on all aspects of the specialty Includes information about the exam, answers to commonly asked questions, and tips and strategies for exam mastery Includes practice questions and answers following each chapter Provides a final comprehensive practice exam that offers 300 Q&As with detailed answer rationales that mirror the exam format Presents case-based scenarios within the questions that facilitate the application of knowledge |
| end of life care questions and answers: End-of-life Care Kim K. Kuebler, Patricia H. Berry, Debra E. Heidrich, 2002 Nurses often develop long-term relationships with the patients and families for whom they care; providing quality care until the end of life is absolutely fundamental to nursing. This important book provides the guidelines and tools necessary to provide this care. -- Publisher description. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Hospice Social Work Dona J. Reese, 2013-02-26 The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work. She introduces a well-tested model of psychosocial and spiritual variables that predict hospice client outcomes, and she advances a social work assessment tool to document their occurrence. Operating at the center of national leaders' coordinated efforts to develop and advance professional organizations and guidelines for end-of-life care, Reese reaches out with support and practice information, helping social workers understand their significance in treating the whole person, contributing to the cultural competence of hospice settings, and claiming a definitive place within the hospice team. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Dignity Therapy Harvey Max Chochinov, 2012-01-04 Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Dignity therapy, a psychological intervention developed by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and his internationally lauded research group, has been designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as they grapple with the reality of life drawing to a close. In the first book to lay out the blueprint for this unique and meaningful intervention, Chochinov addresses one of the most important dimensions of being human. Being alive means being vulnerable and mortal; he argues that dignity therapy offers a way to preserve meaning and hope for patients approaching death. With history and foundations of dignity in care, and step by step guidance for readers interested in implementing the program, this volume illuminates how dignity therapy can change end-of-life experience for those about to die - and for those who will grieve their passing. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Textbook of Palliative Care Roderick Duncan MacLeod, Lieve Van den Block, 2025-05-29 This second edition provides the most up-to-date information on all aspects of palliative care including recent developments (including COVID-19), global policies, service provision, symptom management, professional aspects, organization of services, palliative care for specific populations, palliative care emergencies, ethical issues in palliative care, research in palliative care, public health approaches and financial aspects of care. This new Textbook of Palliative Care remains a unique, comprehensive, clinically relevant and state-of-the art book, aimed at advancing palliative care as a science, a clinical practice and as an art. Palliative care has been part of healthcare for over fifty years but we still needs to be explained. Healthcare education and training has been slow to recognize the vital importance of ensuring that all practitioners have a good understanding of what is involved in the care of people with serious or advanced illnesses and theirfamilies. However, the science of palliative care is advancing and this new edition will contribute to a better understanding of this specialty. This new edition offers 20 new chapters out of over 120, written by experts in their given fields provide up-to-date information on a wide range of topics of relevance to those providing care towards the end of life no matter what the disease may be. We present a global perspective on contemporary and classic issues in palliative care with authors from a wide range of disciplines involved in this essential aspect of care. The Textbook includes sections addressing aspects such as symptom management and care provision, organization of care in different settings, care in specific disease groups, palliative care emergencies, ethics, public health approaches and research in palliative care. This new Textbook will be of value to practitioners in all disciplines and professions where the care of people approaching death is important, specialists as well as non-specialists, in any setting where people with serious advanced illnesses are residing. It is also an important resource for researchers, policy-and decision-makers at national or regional levels. Neither the science nor the art of palliative care will stand still so the Editors and contributors from all over the world aim to keep this Textbook updated so that the reader can find new evidence and approaches to care. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work Terry Altilio MSW, ACSW, LCSW, Shirley Otis-Green MSW, ACSW, LCSW, OSW, 2011-03-23 The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is a comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally sensitive, biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness. Social workers from diverse settings will benefit from its international scope and wealth of patient and family narratives. Unique to this scholarly text is its emphasis on the collaborative nature inherent in palliative care. This definitive resource is edited by two leading palliative social work pioneers who bring together an array of international authors who provide clinicians, researchers, policy-makers, and academics with a broad range of content to enrich the guidelines recommended by the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Top Five Regrets of the Dying Bronnie Ware, 2019-08-13 Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Physician's Guide to End-of-life Care American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine. End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel, Timothy E. Quill, 2001 Identifies clinical, ethical, and public policy challenges in end-of- life care and offers recommendations on how to better address these problems. Part I focuses on building relationships among doctors, patients, and families, cultural differences in attitudes towards palliative care, and what to do when the patient cannot speak for himself. Part II presents practical approaches to common problems, illustrated with clinical cases in management of pain, depression, and delirium. Part III deals with legal, financial, and quality issues. Snyder teaches bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics; Quill teaches in the Program for Biopsychosocial Studies at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. c. Book News Inc. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Care of the Dying Patient David A. Fleming, John C. Hagan, 2010-04-15 Originally published as a series of articles in Missouri medicine. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards Sriram Yennurajalingam, Eduardo Bruera, 2018 Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards is a comprehensive, evidence-based book of flashcards for clinicians caring for patients who require hospice and palliative care and supportive care. Written in a clinical scenario/vignette, question and answer format by experts with first-hand experience in the field, the flashcards are highly readable and serve as a source of fast answers to clinical questions in the field. A total of 300 flashcards are organized into chapters by symptom/disease and provide readers with up-to-date information that follow the core curriculum of American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for ease of use and rapid review for exams. This book will equip care professionals with key concepts related to the assessment and management of palliative care, making it an ideal point-of-care quick reference material for physicians, nurse practitioners, fellows, residents, and students. |
| end of life care questions and answers: End-of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Joel Policzer, 2011-01-07 The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care The study/learning questions at the end of each chapter make this book an excellent resource for both faculty who wish to test knowledge, and individual learners who wish to assess their own learning....The book is well written and easy to read. 3 Stars.--Doody's Review Service End of Life Care: A Practical Guide offers solution-oriented coverage of the real-world issues and challenges that arise daily for clinicians caring for those with life-limiting illnesses and conditions. End of Life Care: A Practical Guide includes specific clinical guidance for pain management and other common end of life symptoms. The second edition has been made even more essential with the addition of chapter-ending Q&A for self assessment and board review, new coverage of multicultural medicine, an increased number of algorithms to assist decision making on complicated clinical, legal, and ethical issues. Six sections walk you through the complexities of caring for patients who are nearing the end of life: Preparing Patients for End of Life Management of Symptoms Diagnostic and Invasive Interventions Ethical Dilemmas Special Populations Diversity No other text better assists physicians and other clinicians in providing patients near the end of life with support, guidance, and hope in the face of “hopelessness” than End of Life Care: A Practical Guide. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Social Aspects of Care Nessa Coyle, 2016 'Social Aspects of Care' provides an overview of financial and mental stress illness places, not just on the patient, but on the family as well. This volume contains information on how to support families in palliative care, cultural considerations important in end-of-life care, sexuality and the impactof illness, planning for the actual death, and bereavement. |
| end of life care questions and answers: End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement Sara Honn Qualls, Julia E. Kasl-Godley, 2010-11-23 A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care, including grief and bereavement The needs of individuals with life-limiting or terminal illness and those caring for them are well documented. However, meeting these needs can be challenging, particularly in the absence of a well-established evidence base about how best to help. In this informative guide, editors Sara Qualls and Julia Kasl-Godley have brought together a notable team of international contributors to produce a clear structure offering mental health professionals a framework for developing the competencies needed to work with end-of-life care issues, challenges, concerns, and opportunities. Part of the Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology, this thorough and up-to-date guide answers complex questions often asked by patients, their families and caregivers, and helping professionals as well, including: How does dying occur, and how does it vary across illnesses? What are the spiritual issues that are visible in end-of-life care? How are families engaged in end-of-life care, and what services and support can mental health clinicians provide them? How should providers address mental disorders that appear at the end of life? What are the tools and strategies involved in advanced care planning, and how do they play out during end-of-life care? Sensitively addressing the issues that arise in the clinical care of the actively dying, this timely book is filled with clinical illustrations, guidance, tips for practice, and encouragement. Written to equip mental health professionals with the information they need to guide families and others caring for the needs of individuals with life-threatening and terminal illnesses, End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement presents a rich resource for caregivers for the psychological, sociocultural, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects of care at the end of life. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Dying in America Institute of Medicine, Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End-of-Life Issues, 2015-03-19 For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life. |
| end of life care questions and answers: A Practical Guide to End of Life Care Clair Sadler, 2015-09-16 Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life? Do you have a role in supporting the families of those who are dying, or is this an area of your work you find personally difficult? This book is an accessible guide for all those working in health or social care and caring for people at the end of their lives. This will include people in roles such as healthcare assistant, hospice worker, volunteer, nurse or other carers. Written by experts with extensive experience in delivering high quality end of life care, this book is full of real life examples, reflection exercises and case studies. It also includes insights into what can help make a good death, and how to help support families at the end of life.The easy to read chapters emphasise treating people who are dying with dignity using a person centred approach. The book supports the delivery of quality care by recognising physical and non-physical symptoms, and thinking about various emotional and physical needs people might have. It is also important that care givers look after themselves and advice is given on how best to do this. An essential purchase for anyone looking for guidance or support in this area, and suitable for those working in the community, care homes, hospices, hospitals or other settings where people are cared for. With a Foreword from Dr. Ros Taylor, MBE, National Director for Hospice Care, Hospice UK. “The book strikes a balance between the factual and the personal, and gives the reader detailed information and time to think through reflection exercises.” Deborah Preshaw, doctoral nursing student, Queens University Belfast, UK “This is a beautifully presented learning tool to support the delivery of end of life care. I particularly like the ‘signposts’ which reinforce the intention of the book to enable ‘carers’ to apply what they read to their role in practice.” Liz Bryan, Director of Education and Training, St Christopher's Hospice, UK This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on end of life care, as it does exactly what it says – it is a practical guide. I highly recommend this book. Mick Coughlan, Programme Leader, The Royal Marsden School, UK I feel this book would be very useful for those new to palliative care as well as those studying the subject. Relating theory to practice is always powerful and for new nurses and other healthcare professionals this provides context and meaning. Clodagh Sowton, Director of Patient Services, Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care, UK This is a welcome book to the field of end of life care. This practical guide is accessible and is an excellent bridge between the ‘Lay Person’ and those health care professionals caring for the individual as they approach the end of life. I will be directing students of healthcare towards this impressive, insightful book. Robert Murphy, Senior Lecturer - Adult Nursing, London South Bank University, UK The material covered is very helpful and the range of authors has been well selected from individuals who are active in clinical practice. The book is practical and clear, and Clair deserves high praise for the contribution it will make to clinicians seeking to improve their palliative care knowledge and skills. Professor Max Watson, Medical Director Northern Ireland Hospice, Visiting Professor University of Ulster, UK |
| end of life care questions and answers: End-of-Life Nursing Care Annie Pettifer, Joanna de Souza, 2012-12-18 Students and newly qualified staff make up much of the workforce delivering end-of-life care but, because end-of-life care can be both technically challenging and emotionally demanding, it is an aspect of nursing that can cause considerable anxiety. This very accessible, straightforward book helps to allay those concerns and enables pre-registration students to prepare confidently for the challenges they will face when they are caring for dying patients and supporting their families. Each chapter is based on a different and realistic scenario - reflecting a range of circumstances - to demonstrate the essential generic knowledge and skills they need to develop, and draws out the important practical and theoretical issues students should consider and address if patients and their families are to receive the best possible care. Written by two experienced palliative care lecturer/practitioners, and mapping closely to the NMC′s 2010 domains, the book is tailored to the needs of student nurses working with adult patients. It explores the importance of their role in end-of-life care and how this interfaces with the roles of other multidisciplinary professionals involved in the care of their patients. It will also be helpful to students of other health-care professions and support newly-qualified health-care professionals working in adult health. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Conversations on Dying Phil Dwyer, 2016-04-16 The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach dedicated his life and his career to helping his patients navigate their final journey. Then, in April 2013, Larry was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Unlike the majority of us, Larry knew the death he wanted. He wanted to die at home, surrounded by his family: his wife of forty years, his children, and his grandchildren. He did. He was peaceful and calm at the end. Larry proved that the “good death” isn’t a myth. It can be done, and he showed us how. Ever the teacher, Larry made his last journey a teachable moment on how to die the best death possible, even with a pernicious disease. As hard as it is to guide patients toward dying well, it is far harder to live those precepts day by day as the clock ticks down to one’s own death, but Larry, together with author Phil Dwyer, chronicled his final journey with courage and humour. |
| end of life care questions and answers: End of life choices Fiona Randall, Robin Downie, 2009-10-08 A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. dived into two parts, it introduces and explains clinical decision making-processes about which there is broad consensus, in line with guidance documents issued by WHO, BMA, GMC, and similar bodies. The changing political and social context where 'patient choice' has become a central idea, and the broadened scope of potients' best interests, have added to the complexity of decision-making in end of life care. The authors discuss issues widely encountered by GPs, nurses, and hospital clinicians. These include patient choice, consent, life-prolonging treatment, and symptom relief including sedation. Part rwo explores the more controversial current end of life care initiatives, such as advance care planning preferred place of care and death, euthanais and assited suicide, extended ideas of 'best interests', and the view that there are therapeutic duties to the relatives of Throughout their discussion the authors draw attention to loose ends and contradictions in some of the proposals. Examining the current policy of comsumerist choice, they reject its place in the health service, proposing a a realistic, fair, humane and widely adoptable system of end of life care. As knowledge of ethical theories is required in training courses, and the vocabulary of ethical theory is widespread in current discussions a substantial appendix on ethical theories and terms is available online. Written by the same authors as The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and Reconstruction, which won the Medical Journalists' Association Specialits Book Award 2007, this new book for non-specialists is essential reading for all health care professionals involved in providing end of life care. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Ask a Manager Alison Green, 2018-05-01 From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together |
| end of life care questions and answers: Living With Grief Kenneth J. Doka, Joyce D. Davidson, 2014-05-22 Produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fifth annual National Bereavement Teleconference, this volume examines how key aspects of identity affect how individuals grieve. Variables explored include culture, spirituality, age and development level, class and gender. |
| end of life care questions and answers: A Caregiver's Guide Mary Brooksbank, Elizabeth Keam, W. P. Hallahan, 2007 A guide for carers caring for a person who has a life limiting illness at home--Provided by publisher. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Primer of Palliative Care Porter Storey, 1994 |
| end of life care questions and answers: The Medical Interview Mack Jr. Lipkin, J.G. Carroll, R.M. Frankel, Samuel M. Putnam, Aaron Lazare, A. Keller, T. Klein, P.K. Williams, 2012-12-06 Primary care medicine is the new frontier in medicine. Every nation in the world has recognized the necessity to deliver personal and primary care to its people. This includes first-contact care, care based in a posi tive and caring personal relationship, care by a single healthcare pro vider for the majority of the patient's problems, coordination of all care by the patient's personal provider, advocacy for the patient by the pro vider, the provision of preventive care and psychosocial care, as well as care for episodes of acute and chronic illness. These facets of care work most effectively when they are embedded in a coherent integrated approach. The support for primary care derives from several significant trends. First, technologically based care costs have rocketed beyond reason or availability, occurring in the face of exploding populations and diminish ing real resources in many parts of the world, even in the wealthier nations. Simultaneously, the primary care disciplines-general internal medicine and pediatrics and family medicine-have matured significantly. |
| end of life care questions and answers: 100 Questions and Answers about Myelodysplastic Syndromes Jason Gotlib, Lenn Fechter, 2015-04-24 Newly revised and updated, 100 Questions & Answers About Myelodysplastic Syndromes provides authoritative and practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. What is myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)? What causes MDS? Is MDS hereditary, and will I give it to my children? Written by experts in the field, and with commentary from actual patients, this guide is the only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views.100 Questions & Answers About Myelodysplastic Syndromes is an invaluable resource for anyone struggling with the medical, physical, and emotional turmoil of this disease. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Interview Questions and Answers Richard McMunn, 2013-05 |
| end of life care questions and answers: Getting Your Affairs in Order , 1988 |
| end of life care questions and answers: How To Break Bad News Robert Buckman, 1992-08-08 For many health care professionals and social service providers, the hardest part of the job is breaking bad news. The news may be about a condition that is life-threatening (such as cancer or AIDS), disabling (such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis), or embarrassing (such as genital herpes). To date medical education has done little to train practitioners in coping with such situations. With this guide Robert Buckman and Yvonne Kason provide help. Using plain, intelligible language they outline the basic principles of breaking bad new and present a technique, or protocol, that can be easily learned. It draws on listening and interviewing skills that consider such factors as how much the patient knows and/or wants to know; how to identify the patient's agenda and understanding, and how to respond to his or her feelings about the information. They also discuss reactions of family and friends and of other members of the health care team. Based on Buckman's award-winning training videos and Kason's courses on interviewing skills for medical students, this volume is an indispensable aid for doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, and all those in related fields. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Palliative and End-of-Life Care Kim K. Kuebler, Debra E. Heidrich, Peg Esper, 2006-12-12 Palliative and End-of-Life Care, 2nd Edition provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness. This text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory, extending from diagnosis of advanced disease until death. Four units provide the general principles of palliative and end-of-life care, important concepts, advanced disease management, and clinical practice guidelines. Clinical practice guidelines offer in-depth discussions of the pathophysiology of 19 different symptoms, interventions for specific symptom management (including in-depth rationales), and suggestions for patient and family teaching. Defines dying as a normal, healthy process aided by the support of an interdisciplinary team. Provides in-depth pathophysiology, assessment, and intervention information based upon the disease trajectory. Highlights opportunities for patient and family teaching. Describes psychosocial issues experienced by patients and their families. Reviews uncomplicated and complicated grief and mourning, providing suggestions to help the family after a patient's death. Includes case studies at the end of chapters to reinforce key concepts of compassionate care. New chapters including Advance Care Planning, Ethical Issues, Spiritual Care Across Cultures, Pharmacology, Sleep, and Nutrition. Includes a new appendix on Assessment Tools and Resources for more comprehensive coverage of palliative and end-of-life care. |
| end of life care questions and answers: How Not to be My Patient Edward T. Creagan, 2003 Dr. Creagan's prescription for prevention and survival teaches readers how to take control of their health care, their medical records and their decision making and shows patients how to wisely select and build partnerships with their doctors. |
| end of life care questions and answers: The Four Things That Matter Most - 10th Anniversary Edition Ira Byock, 2004-03-08 “This beautiful book, full of wisdom and warmth, teaches us how to protect and preserve our most valuable possessions—the relationships with those we love. It shows that the things that matter definitely aren’t ‘things,’ and how to empower your life in the right direction.” —Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Four simple phrases—“Please forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you,” and “I love you”—carry enormous power to mend and nurture our relationships and inner lives. These four phrases and the sentiments they convey provide a path to emotional wellbeing, guiding us through interpersonal difficulties to life with integrity and grace. Newly updated with stories from people who have turned to this life-altering book in their time of need, this motivational teaching about what really matters reminds us how we can honor each relationship every day. Dr. Ira Byock, an international leader in palliative care, explains how we can practice these life-affirming words in our day-to-day lives. Too often we assume that the people we love really know that we love them. Dr. Byock demonstrates the value of “stating the obvious” and provides practical insights into the benefits of letting go of old grudges and toxic emotions. His stories help us to forgive, appreciate, love, and celebrate one another and live life more fully. Using the Four Things in a wide range of life situations, we can experience emotional healing even in the wake of family strife, personal tragedy, divorce, or in the face of death. With practical wisdom and spiritual power, The Four Things That Matter Most gives us the language and guidance to honor and experience what really matters most in our lives every day. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Palliative Care Bridget Sumser, Meagan Leimena, Terry Altilio, 2019 Accessible and instructive, Palliative Care guides and inspires health social workers to integrate palliative care principles into their current clinical practice. Through the lenses of environmental theory and intersectionality, rich case narratives and diverse practice settings highlightopportunities for social workers to enhance their work, thereby advancing whole-person care in the face of serious illness. The volume also models engagement, assessment, and intervention through key palliative care skills and language. Chapters include questions to concretize ideas and demonstratereal-world application, while case narratives cover a range of settings, diagnoses, and populations. This book is a useful tool for any social worker working with individuals and families navigating complex health care systems. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Death Is But a Dream Christopher Kerr, Carine Mardorossian, 2020-02-11 The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as more real than real, these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery. |
| end of life care questions and answers: Palliative Day Care Ronald Fisher, 1996-03-29 There has been a steady growth in the provision of day care services for people with life-threatening illnesses who live at home. This book includes details of the range of therapies and services that a multi-disciplinary team can provide to address the physical, emotional, psycho-social and spiritual needs of these patients and their families, thus enabling them to remain in their own homes. |
End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers - IU
The following information can help answer some of the questions that many patients, their family members, and caregivers have about the end of life. 1. How long is the patient expected to …
Questions and Answers About Trauma-Informed End-of-Life …
Why and how is trauma-informed end-of-life care important to the art and science of hospice and palliative care? The data is clear that as we age, experience health challenges, and receive …
Palliative Care Asking the questions that matter to me
Palliative care focuses on helping you to live well with an illness which is life-limiting seeking to help you achieve the best quality of life as your illness progresses.
End of Life Care Workbook for Support and Care Staff - The …
It helps you to recognise what good end of life care looks like, in order to make a difference to care. This workbook provides information, practical tips and resources.
Discussing Palliative Care with Patients - American College of …
cians begin to discuss palliative care? How might physicians respond to difficult patient statements and questions? How can physicians discuss palliative care while disease-remitting …
Caregiving Answers, No Matter the Question
End-of-Life Care Questions modifications? • What are the options for in-home care versus institutional care? • Are there resources available for grief support? • What are the financial …
Palliative Care Questions and Answers - LSU Health Sciences …
You may receive palliative care and Treatments and medicines aimed at relieving curative care at the same time symptoms are provided by hospice. The goal is comfort not cure. What …
End-of-Life CareFacilitate Early Discussions with Patients
1 Describes four STEPS to help your patients convey their end-of-life decisions. 2 Provides answers to common questions about using templates for end-of-life discussions. 3 Shares a …
Common Questions and Answers About Palliative Care
Palliative Care focuses on relief of complex physical, psychological, social or spiritual problems related to life-limiting, terminal or irreversible illness. Palliative Care services may be provided …
10 Questions to ensure good end of life care in your area
End of life care affects all of us. We all die and the majority of us will experience the deaths of people we love a number of times before we die ourselves. The end of life is not a condition; it …
Values Worksheet for End-of-Life Decisions - Hospice of …
Use this worksheet to help you prepare documents to express your wishes about your end-of-life care, or care when you can't speak for yourself. Keywords advance directives, living will, dying, …
End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers - GovInfo
The following information can help answer some of the questions that many patients, their family members, and caregivers have about the end of life. 1. How long is the patient expected to …
Why and how to have end-of-life discussions with your patients:
routinely conducting end-of-life care discussions with patients who have a poor prognosis: •Better patient quality of life •Less depression •Lower costs •Less aggressive medical care •Earlier …
Family Care Conference Question Prompt Sheet - SPA LTC
member/friend has a positive end-of-life care experience? ☐ What are the advantages and disadvantages of resuscitation? ☐ What spiritual or religious care is available to us? ☐ Is it …
Assessment Instruments for End of Life Care, by Domain
The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire: a measure of quality of life appropriate for people with advanced disease. A preliminary study of validity and acceptability.
My End-of-Life Decisions - Compassion & Choices
The guide will help you think through your priorities for end-of-life care, complete an advance directive and other forms you may need, choose a representative to speak for you if you …
Asking questions can help - Palliative Care
Most people who see a palliative care doctor for the first time have questions and concerns. Often these are forgotten in the rush of the moment, only to be remembered later. The purpose of …
Caring for someone at home who is nearing the end of life
by practical information about providing end-of-life care in your home. We also provide answers to some of the questions you might have about caring for someone at home who is nearing the …
Care at the End of Life: Guiding Practice Where There Are No …
restrict appropriate care at the end of life in order to save mo. of unrelieved suffering and loss of control over care at the end of life. Physicians, regardless of their views on physician-assisted …
25 Questions You Should Ask your Hospice - Illinois Right to Life
Oct 25, 2014 · We’ve developed 25 questions you can ask to determine what type of care philosophy a hospice follows. Use this checklist as one means to help determine whether a …
End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers - IU
The following information can help answer some of the questions that many patients, their family members, and caregivers have about the end of life. 1. How long is the patient expected to …
Questions and Answers About Trauma-Informed End-of …
Why and how is trauma-informed end-of-life care important to the art and science of hospice and palliative care? The data is clear that as we age, experience health challenges, and receive …
Palliative Care Asking the questions that matter to me
Palliative care focuses on helping you to live well with an illness which is life-limiting seeking to help you achieve the best quality of life as your illness progresses.
End of Life Care Workbook for Support and Care Staff
It helps you to recognise what good end of life care looks like, in order to make a difference to care. This workbook provides information, practical tips and resources.
Discussing Palliative Care with Patients - American …
cians begin to discuss palliative care? How might physicians respond to difficult patient statements and questions? How can physicians discuss palliative care while disease-remitting …
Caregiving Answers, No Matter the Question
End-of-Life Care Questions modifications? • What are the options for in-home care versus institutional care? • Are there resources available for grief support? • What are the financial …
Palliative Care Questions and Answers - LSU Health Sciences …
You may receive palliative care and Treatments and medicines aimed at relieving curative care at the same time symptoms are provided by hospice. The goal is comfort not cure. What …
End-of-Life CareFacilitate Early Discussions with Patients
1 Describes four STEPS to help your patients convey their end-of-life decisions. 2 Provides answers to common questions about using templates for end-of-life discussions. 3 Shares a …
Common Questions and Answers About Palliative Care
Palliative Care focuses on relief of complex physical, psychological, social or spiritual problems related to life-limiting, terminal or irreversible illness. Palliative Care services may be provided …
10 Questions to ensure good end of life care in your area
End of life care affects all of us. We all die and the majority of us will experience the deaths of people we love a number of times before we die ourselves. The end of life is not a condition; it …
Values Worksheet for End-of-Life Decisions - Hospice of …
Use this worksheet to help you prepare documents to express your wishes about your end-of-life care, or care when you can't speak for yourself. Keywords advance directives, living will, …
End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers - GovInfo
The following information can help answer some of the questions that many patients, their family members, and caregivers have about the end of life. 1. How long is the patient expected to …
Why and how to have end-of-life discussions with your …
routinely conducting end-of-life care discussions with patients who have a poor prognosis: •Better patient quality of life •Less depression •Lower costs •Less aggressive medical care •Earlier …
Family Care Conference Question Prompt Sheet - SPA LTC
member/friend has a positive end-of-life care experience? ☐ What are the advantages and disadvantages of resuscitation? ☐ What spiritual or religious care is available to us? ☐ Is it …
Assessment Instruments for End of Life Care, by Domain
The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire: a measure of quality of life appropriate for people with advanced disease. A preliminary study of validity and acceptability.
My End-of-Life Decisions - Compassion & Choices
The guide will help you think through your priorities for end-of-life care, complete an advance directive and other forms you may need, choose a representative to speak for you if you …
Asking questions can help - Palliative Care
Most people who see a palliative care doctor for the first time have questions and concerns. Often these are forgotten in the rush of the moment, only to be remembered later. The purpose of …
Caring for someone at home who is nearing the end of life
by practical information about providing end-of-life care in your home. We also provide answers to some of the questions you might have about caring for someone at home who is nearing the …
Care at the End of Life: Guiding Practice Where There Are No …
restrict appropriate care at the end of life in order to save mo. of unrelieved suffering and loss of control over care at the end of life. Physicians, regardless of their views on physician-assisted …
25 Questions You Should Ask your Hospice - Illinois Right …
Oct 25, 2014 · We’ve developed 25 questions you can ask to determine what type of care philosophy a hospice follows. Use this checklist as one means to help determine whether a …
