Palliative Care II : Improving Care, an Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

by Emanuel

• ISBN13: 9781416026464
• ISBN10: 1416026460
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-27
• Publisher: Saunders

Summary

This issue is the second of two on Palliative Care, guest edited by Linda Emanuel, MD, Director of the Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern Medical School. Specifically devoted to Improving Care, Palliative Care II is divided into three sections that cover End of Life Care in the Modern Era, Research and Education, and Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues. Within these sections the authors focus on norms and standards of end of life care, an evaluation of the instruments of assessment in geriatric medicine, and an agenda for policy improvement. Palliative Care aims to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for patients with advanced illness, and as such it is a topic of prime concern to all geriatricians.

Table of Contents

1. A Historical Account of the Geriatrics and Palliative Care Movements: Lessons from Twin Efforts to Transform Medical Care (Cox-Hayley, Sachs) 2. Norms, Standards, and Guidelines: A Framework for Comprehensive Palliative/End-of-life Care (Ferris, Librach) 3. Public Health and Palliative Care (Higginson) 4. International Perspectives of Aging and End-of-Life Care (Merriman, Sebuyira) 5. Building Up Research in Palliative Care: An Historical Perspective (Dale, Kaasa) 6. Pain and Terminal Delirium Research in the Elderly (Bruera, Yennurajalingam?) 7. Instruments of Assessment and Measurement (Arseven, Chang, Emanuel)8. Education in Palliative Care (Blust, Weissman) 9. The Economics of Palliative Care: A Research Agenda (Boni-Saenz, Dranove, LoSasso) 10. Assisted Suicide (Wolf) 11. When Advance Care Plans Carry No Authority (Kirschner) 12. Futility (Goold, Silveira) 13. Withholding and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment (Derse) 14. An Agenda for Policy Improvement (Lorenz, Lynn, Shugarman)