Caring For The Dying

Author : Henry Fersko-Weiss
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781633410367

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Caring for the Dying by Henry Fersko-Weiss Pdf

Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas and helps the dying to find meaning in their life, express that meaning in powerful and beautiful legacies, and plan for the final days. The approach calls for around-the-clock vigil care, so the dying person and their family have the emotional and spiritual support they need along with guidance on signs and symptoms of dying. It also covers the work of reprocessing a death with the family afterward and the early work of grieving. Emphasis is placed on the space around the dying person and encourages the use of touch, guided imagery, and ritual during the dying process. Throughout the book Fersko-Weiss tells amazing and encouraging stories of the people he has cared for, as well as stories that come from doulas he has trained and worked with over the years. What is unique about this book is the well-conceived and thorough approach it describes to working skillfully with the dying. The guidance provided can help a dying person, their family, and caregivers to transform the dying experience from one of fear and despair into one that is uplifting and even life affirming. You will see death in a new light and gain a different perspective on how to help the dying. It may even change the way you live your life right now.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End-of-Life Issues
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309303132

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Dying in America by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End-of-Life Issues Pdf

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.

Author : Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309518253

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Approaching Death by Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine Pdf

When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."

Author : Joanna Lillian Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Caregivers
ISBN : 0981982018

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Caring for Dying Loved Ones by Joanna Lillian Brown Pdf

A useful guide book for persons already caring for dying relatives and friends as well as those who wish to prepare for care giving responsibilites in the future.

Author : Judith Paice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190244293

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Care of the Imminently Dying by Judith Paice Pdf

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care. Palliative care is also characterized by a string interdisciplinary approach. Nurses are at the center of the palliative care team across settings and populations. The seventh volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, Care of the Imminently Dying provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death rattle, or cough, urgent syndromes that may appear the end of life, palliative sedation, and the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice.

Author : Janet Booth,Gale Gagnier,Terrence Ho
Publisher : Bold Spirit Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 099409275X

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Bold Spirit Caring for the Dying by Janet Booth,Gale Gagnier,Terrence Ho Pdf

Find answers inside about end-of-life transition from this collection of experiences written by compassionate, skilled, and inspiring practitioners in the area of end-of-life such as hospice, palliative care, thanatology, paramedic services, personal support work, education, and death doula work. The co-authors are bold spirits exemplifying what it means to step up in a very open, and often vulnerable way, in the field end-of-life care. Janet Booth * Gale Gagnier * Terrence Ho *Lesley James * Ashlee Jansen * Shannon Koppenhoefer * Janice Lombardo * Tamelynda Lux * Olga Nikolajev *Siby Varghese * Chrystal Waban You will indeed be moved by this compilation of inspiring stories, quotes, and real-life insights concerning end-of-life from a diversity of practitioner perspectives. In this book: compelling stories of caring at end-of-life transition, examples of how specific needs of the dying were addressed, inspiring experiences and ah-ha moments, self-care tips and strategies for managing as a caregiver, quotes and books that inspire, what practitioners wish they had know when they began on the journey as practitioners in end-of-life care and what they discovered. "Writing down our stories gives voice to the importance of end-of-life care. Sharing them offers the gift of hope." Tamelynda Lux, Founder, Bold Spirit Press

Author : Andrea Sankar
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781421447735

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Dying at Home by Andrea Sankar Pdf

"This will be the third edition of this title, heavily updated from the 1999 second edition"--

Author : Janet Moscrop,Joy Robbins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489933768

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Caring for the Dying Patient and the Family by Janet Moscrop,Joy Robbins Pdf

This third edition of a popular textbook has been completely revised by the joint editors, Janet Moscrop and Joy Robbins. As in previous editions, the focus is on the person dying at home, in residential care or in hospital and the emphasis is on teamwork in caring for the individual and their relatives and friends. Experts in all aspects of care have contributed to this complete revision of the previous text and each chapter is written by a different member of the multiprofessional team. The chapter on the terminal care of people suffering from AIDS has been enlarged and consideration is also given to care of those in the term inal stages of other non-malignant diseases. Other new material includes chapters on complementary therapy, the use of the day centre, the value of volunteers, diversional therapy and respite care. The chapter on bereavement covers many aspects of grief and loss and there is a sensitive approach to the need for supporting staff in this spe cialized work. Consideration is also given to the needs of dying and griev ing people from differing ethnic backgrounds with varying cultural expectations in a pluralistic society. The third edition offers a broad overview of the support given to the dying person and the carers by medical and nursing staff, physiothera pists, pharmacists, social workers, the chaplaincy and members of the pastoral care team. Students of all these disciplines should find this book both readable and informative.

Author : Julia Lawton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134588671

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The Dying Process by Julia Lawton Pdf

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death. Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology central to the modern hospice movement of enabling patients to 'live until they die', Julia Lawton shows how our concept of a 'good death' is open to interpretation. Her study examines the non-negotiable effects of a patient's bodily deterioration on their sense of self and, in so doing, offers a powerful new perspective in embodiment and emotion in death and dying. A detailed and subtle ethnographic study, The Dying Process engages with a range of deeply complex and ethically contentious issues surrounding the care of dying patients in hospices and elsewhere.

Author : Sylvia Poss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000438697

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Towards Death with Dignity by Sylvia Poss Pdf

The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by. Originally published in 1981, it was to fill this important gap that Towards Death with Dignity was written. Not since Kubler-Ross’s now classic On Death and Dying has a book in the field of terminal care been informed by so much first-hand experience, and so much case material, allowing the caregiver to learn from the dying person himself how best to help him towards a dignified death. Sylvia Poss’s sensitive elucidation of what the dying person must do for himself in order to master his terminal crisis was welcomed as a major contribution to psychosocial knowledge at the time. Having outlined the dying person’s side of the crisis, she turns to the perspective of those who hope to help him towards death – other patients, nurses, doctors, paramedical staff and social workers, chaplains, volunteers, employers, relatives and friends. Towards Death with Dignity focuses on three of social work’s major methods: social casework, community work and teaching. Not only does Sylvia Poss outline what may need to be done by the caregiver, but she also illustrates how; she further outlines how to prepare for social work in the terminal care field and suggests an effective method for teaching terminal care skills. Her book also provided, for the first time, a synthesis of other recent work in the field, to help social workers through what had become a plethora of specialist psychosocial and medical literature. Towards Death with Dignity was thus a useful, practical guide, both for laymen and for the many professionals involved in this aspect of the health care field. It will also be valuable for those who are involved personally in moving towards their own death, or are being called upon to be involved in some way in the death of a relative, neighbour or friend.

Author : Greg Yoder
Publisher : Companion Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781617221491

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Companioning the Dying by Greg Yoder Pdf

This guide for counselors and lay caregivers explores the art of caring for the dying and their families. Based on the tenets first articulated by renowned grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, this respectful and gratifying guide to caregiving includes personal accounts that debunk the myth of the "good death" and teach caregivers to find the transformative potential of every moment in every experience. Written with wit and illustrated throughout with the author's poetry and artwork, it includes advice for comforting patients and their families as well as advice for dealing with the internal stress common to the profession. The guidance provided will help counselors feel affirmed in their abilities to "be with" the dying and support them and their families.

Author : Monika Renz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231540230

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Dying by Monika Renz Pdf

This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research on near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death. Renz divides dying into three parts: pre-transition, transition, and post-transition. As we die, all egoism and ego-centered perception fall away, bringing us to another state of consciousness, a different register of sensitivity, and an alternative dimension of spiritual connectedness. As patients pass through these stages, they offer nonverbal signals that indicate their gradual withdrawal from everyday consciousness. This transformation explains why emotional and spiritual issues become enhanced during the dying process. Relatives and practitioners are often deeply impressed and feel a sense of awe. Fear and struggle shift to trust and peace; denial melts into acceptance. At first, family problems and the need for reconciliation are urgent, but gradually these concerns fade. By delineating these processes, Renz helps practitioners grow more cognizant of the changing emotions and symptoms of the patients under their care, enabling them to respond with the utmost respect for their patients' dignity.

Author : SUSAN. LOWEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096517749

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NURSING CARE AT THE END OF LIFE by SUSAN. LOWEY Pdf

Author : Ann Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015032228531

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Care of the Dying Child by Ann Goldman Pdf

This unique book considers the specific medical, psycho-social, and practical issues involved in caring for children dying from chronic diseases. Ann Goldman, herself a consultant paediatrician in palliative care at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, recognizes the specialneeds of terminally ill children and their families. She confronts the problems and issues surrounding the care of these children in order to help paediatricians and other professionals provide the very best possible care for such patients. A range of contributors experienced in palliative care forchildren provide comprehensive coverage of the subject, including: consideration of the magnitude of the problem and the provision of services, pain control symptom management, family support and communication with children, spiritual issues, bereavement, stress. This practical, interdisciplinaryapproach to the specific needs of children with terminal diseases will be invaluable for every professional who wishes to enhance standards of care for dying children and their families.

Author : Sandol Stoddard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679734678

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The Hospice Movement by Sandol Stoddard Pdf

A revised edition of the classic report on hospice communities includes information on pain and symptom management, and new material on the hospice community's response to the AIDS crisis