Family carers in palliative care a guide for health and social care professionals

• Other Authors: Payne, Sheila 1954- (Editor), Hudson, Peter 1965- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2009
• Subjects: Palliative Care > methods; Family Relations > methods
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Support for the family is a key component of palliative care practice and philosophy, with both patient and family construed as the 'unit of care'. However, there is not always formal acknowledgement of the importance of the family carer role, or that of friends, neighbours and other non-p...

Table of Contents:

• Communicating with family carers / Barbara Monroe and David Oliviere
• Understanding the social and cultural dimensions of family caregiving / Allan Kellehear
• Responding to family carers' spiritual needs / Rosalie Hudson
• Policy initiatives for family carers / Hilary Arksey and Anne Corden
• Family carers in resource-poor countries / Jennifer Hunt
• Family carers : ethical and legal issues / Michael Ashby and Danuta Mendelson
• Assessing family carer satisfaction with healthcare delivery / Kevin Brazil
• Family caregiving in hospitals and palliative care units / Betty Ferrell, Tami Borneman, and Chan Thai
• Family caregiving in the home / Kelli Stajduhar and Robin Cohen
• Family and palliative care in care homes for older people / Mike Nolan and Rosalie Hudson
• Family carers of children confronting life-threatening illness / Sharon De Graves and Jenny Hynson
• Family carers of people with advanced cancer / Donna Milne and Karen Quinn
• Family carers of people with advanced organ failure and neurodegenerative disorders / Janice Brown and Julia Addington-Hall
• Support for bereaved family carers / Sheila Payne and Liz Rolls
• The future of family caregiving : research, social policy, and clinical practice / Peter Hudson and Sheila Payne