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Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role
Mercedes Bern-Klug
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Description for Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role
Paperback. Editor(s): Bern-Klug, Mercedes E., Ph.D MSW MA. Series: End of Life Care: A Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 illus., 14 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illness experience, not just at the end of life. Because a majority of nursing home residents are older adults facing multiple, advanced chronic conditions, this book is grounded in the provision of palliative care-especially palliative psychosocial care. Yet its practice recommendations can also be applied to other long-term care settings, such as assisted living. The contributors combine scholarship ... Read more
The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illness experience, not just at the end of life. Because a majority of nursing home residents are older adults facing multiple, advanced chronic conditions, this book is grounded in the provision of palliative care-especially palliative psychosocial care. Yet its practice recommendations can also be applied to other long-term care settings, such as assisted living. The contributors combine scholarship ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
End of Life Care: A Series
Condition
New
Weight
527 g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231132251
SKU
V9780231132251
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About Mercedes Bern-Klug
Mercedes Bern-Klug is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa and a John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar. She is a gerontological social work scholar interested in finding ways to help nursing home residents and their family members cope with emotional issues related to living in a nursing home, and she ... Read more
Reviews for Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role
This book certainly fills a niche for a well-deserved population that is often ignored.
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