The Hospice Movement

Author : Sandol Stoddard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679734673
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hospice Movement written by Sandol Stoddard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Fran Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1936740605
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Way We Die written by Fran Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape, through gripping stories of real patients, families, and doctors, as well as the corporate giants that increasingly own the market. Changing the Way We Die is a vital resource for anyone who wants to be prepared to face life’s most challenging and universal event. You will learn: — Hospice use is soaring, yet most people come too late to get the full benefits. — With the age tsunami, it becomes even more critical for families and patients to choose end-of-life care wisely. — Hospice at its best is much more than a way to relieve the suffering of dying. It is a way to live.

Author : Shirley Du Boulay
Publisher : SPCK Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780281058891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicely Saunders written by Shirley Du Boulay and published by SPCK Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the St. Christopher's Hospice and of the modern hospice movement, Dame Cicely Saunders' work transformed the management of pain and the care of the dying. This updated biography explores her extraordinary life.

Author : Sandol Stoddard
Publisher : Scarborough House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hospice Movement written by Sandol Stoddard and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the end of life has become the subject of anguished medical and ethical debate, no book is more welcome than The Hospice Movement This modern classic outlines a bold and noble alternative to the high-tech nightmare that has all too often been our society's accepted approach to death: hospice instead offers caring communities where dying people are treated as human beings worthy of attention and respect. Widely recognized as the essential reference for all who deal with the terminally ill, the book has now been extensively updated with three new chapters that describe the hospice movement's response to AIDS and its evolution into an international phenomenon. The result is one of those rare works that initiate caregivers, family, and friends into a new understanding of death and dying, one that reconciles the medical, the social, and the spiritual.

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593956
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Hospice written by Emily K. Abel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald’s records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.

Author : Cathy Siebold
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hospice Movement written by Cathy Siebold and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What had been intended as a full-fledged alternative to a system of care that seemed best suited to the interests of physicians and hospital staff, not the terminally ill, has for the most part been reduced to a mere extension of that system. Cathy Siebold, a social worker and psychotherapist who has witnessed firsthand the evolution of hospice care since its modern incarnation in the 1960s, presents a balanced and objective analysis of the movement's accomplishments and failings in The Hospice Movement: Easing Death's Pains. Using social movement theory to frame her discussion, Siebold traces the bell curve of growth, maturity, and decline that, to a point, has characterized the hospice movement.

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191660604
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicely Saunders - Founder of the Hospice Movement written by David Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine in 1958 and subsequently dedicated the whole of her professional life to improving the care of the dying and bereaved people. Founding St Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967, she encouraged a radical new approach to end of life care combining attention to physical, social, emotional and spiritual problems, brilliantly captured in her concept of 'total pain'. Her ideas about clinical care, education and research have been hugely influential, leading to numerous prizes and awards in recognition of her humanitarian achievements. In this book the sociologist and historian David Clark presents a selection of her vast correspondence, together with his own commentary. The letters of Cicely Saunders tell a remarkable story of vision, determination and creativity. They should be read by anyone interested in how we die in the modern world.

Author : Dame Cicely M. Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospice Care on the International Scene written by Dame Cicely M. Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how hospice care has been taking root throughout much of the world and illustrates how people are finding ways to shape hospice care to the particular needs and resources of their countries and communities. The book begins with a hospice mission statement by Dame Cicely Saunders and is followed by an overview of the international hospice movement by Dr. Jan Stemsward of the World Health Organization. Included are reports from pioneering hospice programs in the Middle East, in tropical Africa, and Croatia.

Author : Stephen R. Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135849196
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospice and Palliative Care written by Stephen R. Connor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of hospice, as well as the challenges faced by and the direction of the hospice movement. This book provides chapters that address key topics such as the goals and importance of community involvement, outcome measurement, and the manner in which hospices address death, grief, and bereavement.

Author : Stephen R. Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9781560325123
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospice written by Stephen R. Connor and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1998 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as an introduction for professionals, this book gives the reader an overall grasp of how hospice care is practised, the challenges hospices currently face, and the direction the movement is taking. The author claims that in spite of expansion, people are not aware of the work of hospices.