Palliative Care Services and Programs
In this chapter, we discuss the types of palliative care services that are available in the United States and Canada. Palliative care services are most often provided in one of…
Integrating Palliative Care Guidelines into Clinical Practice
This chapter provides an overview of guidelines, their purpose, characteristics, and steps to successfully disseminate and implement them in everyday practice. The goal of this chapter is to encourage the…
Home Palliative Care
Survey results of different populations vary considerably with regard to preference for home as the location of death. A 2000 systematic review of studies found that, overall, the majority of…
Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Settings
The world’s population is aging. Worldwide, 1 in every 10 persons is more than 60 years old. By year 2050, the number is expected to increase to 1 in every…
Spiritual Care
At some point, people who are diagnosed with a life-limiting condition or illness generally realize that they are in transition to something unknown, either to the process of living differently…
The Interdisciplinary Team
The team approach is crucial to palliative care, but there has been little research on the optimal structure and function of an interdisciplinary team that is responsible for caring for…
Social Work Practice in Palliative Care: An Evolving Science of Caring
Social work is a younger profession than either medicine or nursing. Although some form of social work has been present wherever social systems have been in place, social work as…
Palliative Care Nursing
The (nursing) profession taught me so many lessons about the fragility of life, the importance of being mindful about the way you live, the need for appreciation of life’s beauty…
Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care
The emergency department (ED) cares for people with conditions all along the spectrum of illness and injury: Those with chronic, progressive illness and those with acute illness; those with and…
Veterans, Veterans Administration Health Care, and Palliative Care
This chapter describes characteristics of the Veterans Administration Health System and then considers characteristics of veterans from different war eras. It describes two specific problems that veterans receiving palliative care…
