Palliativ medicin

The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content, built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum, but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life.

Focusing on end-of-life care for people who use, or have used, substances, this book explores their social and health care needs and the multiple disadvantages they have often experienced, discussing the complexities around access to care that result.

This book details a five-phase model of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation, exploring how it can be understood as a threshold experience with the potential to offer profound emotional renewal.Illustrated with numerous case study vignettes, the book presents the findings of a research study gathered from observing and interviewing 50 dying persons, investigating the preconditions for forgiveness and reconciliation, and examining how a sense of grace, freedom, peace, and deep connectedness may occur. The book also contextualizes reconciliation and forgiveness as cultural phenomena extending beyond purely behavioral patterns of cooperation and involving great emotional maturity and strength of personality.Centered on humility, self-knowledge, truth-finding, and consciousness, Forgiveness and Reconciliation is important reading for practitioners, scholars and students in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, and palliative care and to all those interested supporting people in conflict situations in the middle of their lives or in working with dying persons.

Examines crucial concerns in palliative care, including the proper balance between comfort and cure for the patient, the integration of spiritual well-being, and the challenges of providing care in the absence of basic medical services and supplies.

Intriguing parallels arise between contemporary end of life images and themes expressed historically in the writings of Thérèse of Lisieux, the Catholic saint who is known as the "Little Flower." Drawing on her combined experiences as a professor of the humanities at Rice University, and as an Artist In Residence in Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the author examines topics such as the paradoxical grandeur of small things, the spiritual significance of flowers, compassion and consolation in the wake of human suffering, the power of mystical dreams and prophetic visions, and vibrant conceptions of eternal life. Ultimately, Saint Thérèse's "little way" and contemporary end of life imagery emphasize the knowledge of the heart, which teaches how to see the hidden in everyday life, and how to recognize the dedication of love.

Das Buch bietet Praxiswissen für die optimale Palliativversorgung schwer kranker und sterbender Menschen. Es richtet es sich an alle, die sich professionell oder ehrenamtlich um die Begleitung Sterbender kümmern: Ärztinnen und Ärzte, Pflegefachkräfte, Tätige in der Seelsorge, Physiotherapie u.a. Aus einem reichen Erfahrungsschatz schöpfend und in klaren, einfühlsamen Worten gehen die Autoren auf alle zentralen Themen ein: Ethisch-rechtliche Grundlagen, aktive und passive Sterbehilfe, assistierter Suizid, Kommunikation mit Patienten und Angehörigen, Schmerztherapie, Symptomkontrolle, palliative Versorgung von Krebserkrankten und Nicht-Krebserkrankten, Palliativmedizin im Pflegeheim und bei Kindern. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele helfen, die Vielschichtigkeit der Palliativmedizin zu verstehen. Die 7. Auflage erscheint komplett aktualisiert und um das Thema Spiritualität erweitert.

Have you ever wondered what specifically takes place if you, or someone you love, were to experience hospice care? Honestly, during an unthinkable crisis, wouldn't it be a relief if your wants and your fears were among the top priorities being addressed? And wouldn't you like to know that the attention includes both you and your loved ones? Imagine how comforting it would be to have the same nurse, nurse aide, social worker and others give you care for the entire time you or your loved one is on service. And after the crisis is over and all the sympathy calls have subsided, think about the reassuring comfort received from someone who stays in contact with you for over a year after the crisis is over. Author Rick Schneider reveals through his own eye-opening experiences and observations that when time appears to be limited, hospice care gives you the assistance to do what is most important to you. Simple Human Compassion will illustrate as nothing else can how touch, not technology, is what is needed at the end of life.

Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Drugs in Palliative Care provides a practical, easily accessible A-Z of the common drugs encountered in palliative care.

The use of cannabinoid-based medicines (CBM), and cannabis in particular, has risen steadily among cancer and palliative care patients over the last few years. This textbook aims to address the multiple challenges facing healthcare providers regarding the use of CBM in this vulnerable patient population. It provides insight into the latest preclinical and clinical data and offers a practical approach on the use of CBM in a rapidly evolving landscape. It answers questions regarding the prescribing process and elucidates controversies regarding cannabis' disease-modifying effects. The first chapters will review basic concepts of the endocannabinoid system and pharmacology of CBM, while focusing more specifically on the unique characteristics of two main cannabinoids: THC and CBD. Indicating which benefits can be expected from using either or both of these compounds, the book then addresses issues of drug-drug interactions and other challenges involved in prescribing CBM to frail patients with polypharmacy and multiple comorbidities. Comparing available products, both approved and non-approved by the FDA, the book discusses regional challenges for accessing reliably tested and labelled products in the context of standardization efforts. After carefully determining objectives and addressing patient expectations, further chapters will examine the different clinical settings in which CBM may be useful in cancer care and explore symptom management, including cancer pain, anxiety, nausea, and insomnia among others. The possible benefits of cannabis psychoactivity will also be discussed, including harm reduction strategies for patients who wish to explore these effects.Cannabis and Cannabinoid-Based Medicines in Cancer Care: A Comprehensive Guide to Medical Management serves as a comprehensive text for oncologists, palliative care specialists, general practitioners, and nurse practitioners working with cancer patients or in palliative care settings. 

Wir wollen möglichst alt werden, verdrängen aber das Alter gleichzeitig aus unserem öffentlichen und persönlichen Bewusstsein. Und genau mit dieser Vision einer Reintegration des Alters in der Mitte unserer Gesellschaft beschäftigt sich dieses Buch. Die Autoren, die sich seit vielen Jahren in ihrer beruflichen Praxis in der Medizin, Krankenpflege, Wissenschaft, Politik, Philosophie oder Management mit dem Thema des Alterns beschäftigen, nähern sich aus ihrer jeweils eigenen Perspektive dem Thema Altern in Würde. Dabei werden die Ursachen der aktuellen Entwicklungen, die alte Menschen so oft an den Rand der Gesellschaft treiben, analysiert und notwendige Veränderungen und Lösungsmodelle vorgestellt. Das Buch weckt Hoffnung auf Selbstbestimmung und zeigt Wege auf, wie Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben gelingen kann. Angesprochen werden alle Menschen, die an gesundem und aktivem Altern interessiert sind und die wissen wollen, was wir heute tun müssen, damit Alter nicht länger mit Einsamkeit, Isolation und Leben im Pflegeheim gleichgesetzt wird.