Palliative day care in practice / [edited by] Julie Hearn and Kathryn Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hearn, Julie, 1969-

Myers, Kathryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terminal care.

Palliative treatment.

Physical Description:

viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are proving to be a cost-effective way of providing care, and of accustomising patients to the hospice environment before full time admittance. They can also improve quality of life by giving patients and carers time away from one another. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current philosophy, patterns and policies of pallaitive day care. It places emphasis on the need to evaluate performance in palliative day care and describes in detailk audit, health economics, research and their associated problems and pitfalls.

Contents:

1 An introduction to palliative day care: past and present / Kathryn Myers, Julie Hearn 1

2 Needs assessment in day care / Irene J. Higginson, Danielle M. Goodwin 12

3 Working across cultures of difference: ethnicity and the challenge for palliative day care / Yasmin Gunaratnam 23

4 Establishing day care / Karen O'Keefe 43

5 Psychosocial day care / Cynthia Kennett 59

6 The role of the doctor in day care / Adrian J. Tookman, Karen S. Scharpen-von Heussen 79

7 Audit in palliative day care: what, why, when, how, where and who / Julie Hearn 94

8 The role of health economics / Hannah-Rose Douglas, Charles Normand 116

9 Future perspectives for day care / Kathryn Myers 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0192631837

OCLC:

47893802