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Making tough decisions about end-of-life care in dementia / Anne Kenny, MD.
Holman Biotech Commons RC521 .K46 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kenny, Anne, 1959- author.
- Series:
- 36-hour day book
- A 36-hour day book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dementia.
- Dementia--Patients--Care.
- Caregivers.
- Terminal care.
- Terminal Care--standards.
- Caregivers--psychology.
- Decision Making.
- Suicide, Assisted.
- Aged.
- Medical Subjects:
- Terminal Care--standards.
- Dementia.
- Caregivers--psychology.
- Decision Making.
- Suicide, Assisted.
- Aged.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 218 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Understanding the end and the need for letting go
- Preparing to let go : emotions of caring
- Making decisions for others
- Legal aspects of decisions
- Complex medical decisions
- Decisions about places of care
- Changing care needs in the end of life
- Changing needs for the caregiver/partner at the end of life
- Active dying
- Afterloss and adjustment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421426662
- 1421426668
- 9781421426679
- 1421426676
- OCLC:
- 1021223282
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