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Palliative and Nursing Home Care: Policies, Challenges and Quality of Life, PDF eBook

Palliative and Nursing Home Care: Policies, Challenges and Quality of Life PDF

Edited by Samuel E. Plunkett

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This book examines the policies, challenges, and quality of life issues in palliative care and nursing home care facilities.

Some topics discussed in this compilation include: identifying the palliative care needs of home-based dementia patients and their caregivers; the functions of sexuality in older adults living in nursing homes and increasing awareness of staff and family members to this issue; haematology and non-oncological respiratory patients in palliative care; the changing role of the licensed practical nurse in nursing home care; obese nursing residents and their special considerations; gynecological cancer and palliative cancer care; and neonatal palliative care.

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