Contributors | |
Acknowledgements | |
Foreword Philip Larkin | |
Introduction | |
Encountering Illness | |
Encountering Illness - Overview | |
History and culture in the rise of palliative care | |
Involving or using? User involvement in palliative care | |
Referral patterns and access to specialist care | |
Dying: places and preferences | |
An uncertain journey âÇô coping with transitions, survival and recurrence Margaret OâÇÖConnor | |
Communication: patient and family | |
Clinical assessment and measurement | |
Adapting complementary therapies for palliative care | |
Transitions into the terminal phase | |
Transitions into the terminal phase - Overview | |
Good for the soul? The spiritual dimension of hospice and palliative care | |
Working with difficult symptoms | |
Pain: theories, evaluation and management | |
Balancing feelings and cognitions | |
Psychiatric aspects of palliative care | |
Working with family caregivers in a palliative care setting | |
Personhood and identity in palliative care | |
No way in: including disadvantaged population and patients at the end of life | |
Treatment decisions at the end of life âÇô a conceptual framework | |
Palliative care in institutions | |
Loss and bereavement | |
Loss and bereavement - Overview | |
Nursing care at the time of death | |
The care and support of bereaved people | |
Risk assessment and adult bereavement services | |
Bereavement support services | |
Helping children and families facing bereavement in palliative care settings | |
Contemporary issues | |
Contemporary issues - Overview | |
Professional boundaries in palliative care | |
The cost of caring âÇô surviving the culture of niceness, occupational stress and coping strategies Sanchia Aranda | |
Education and scholarship in palliative care: a European nursing perspective | |
Information and communications technology (ICT) in palliative care | |
Research in palliative care | |
Practice Development in Palliative Care | |
Policy and palliative care | |
Palliative care in resource-poor countries | |
Conclusion | |
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