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End of life in care homes: a palliative care approach
- Editors:
- KATZ Jeanne Samson,., PEACE Sheila
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This book explores the possibilities for improving the care of older people dying in residential care and nursing homes. Discusses what happens in nursing home settings when a resident is dying and how the carers cope and face the challenges. It shows how this situation can be improved for both the caregiver and patient. The overwhelming majority of people who die are elderly. They typically die slowly of chronic diseases, with multiple co-existing problems over long periods of time. They spend the majority of their final years at home, but usually die in hospitals or nursing homes surrounded by strangers. This book argues that there are aspects of palliative care that, given the right circumstances, are transferable to people dying in institutional settings. The text describes what happens in nursing and residential homes when a resident is dying, how carers cope, and the practical, health and emotional problems that carers face on top of their day-to-day work.