Key concepts in palliative care / edited by Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse -- Agencies: resources for adults with a palliative care need in the UK / Helen Fruin -- Attributes of palliative caring / Moyra A. Baldwin -- Caring for the adult: "a reversal of roles" / Virginia C. Williams -- Caring for the carers / Sheila Payne -- Caring for the child with palliative care needs / Yvonne Flood -- Caring for the older person / Victoria Ridgway -- Caring for young people / Amanda Humphreys and Pat Rose -- Communication / Jan Woodhouse -- Concept of death / Jill McCarthy -- Coronial process / Richard Griffith -- Cultural issues in palliative care / Shirley Firth -- Death / Jane Quigley -- Environment of care: palliative care within the acute hospital care ward / John Costello -- Finance issues and the organisation of palliative care / Peter Hartland -- Financial aspects for patients and carers / Jan Woodhouse -- Funerals / Jan Woodhouse -- Good death / Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse -- The globalisation of palliative care / Lynda Prescott -- Holism / Moyra A. Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood -- Hospice movement and evolution of palliative care / Moyra A. Baldwin -- Information technology / Dion Smyth -- Legal and ethical issues in palliative care / Barbara Beard -- Loss, grief and bereavement / Jan Woodhouse -- Marginalised groups / Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead -- Multi-disciplinary teams / Moyra A. Baldwin. Organ donation / Natalie A. Pattison -- Organisational management of palliative care / Steve Kirk -- Palliative care and the person with cancer / Debbie Wyatt -- Palliative care for the person with a learning disability / Sue Read -- Palliative care and the person with mental ill-health / Catherine Black and Julie Bailey-McHale -- Palliative care and the person with a non-cancer diagnosis / Andrea Dean -- Palliative care education / Karen Manford-Walley -- Patient choices and preferences in palliative care / Stephanie Neill and Dorothy Carter -- Policy drivers / Mzwandile A. Mabhala -- Quality assurance and palliative care / Jill McCarthy -- Reactions of patients and carers / Sue Phillips -- Rehabilitation in palliative care / Claire Jones and Adrian Bunnell -- Research in palliative care / Catherine Black -- Resources and information: looking for answers / Jan Woodhouse -- Sexuality / Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse -- Stigma / Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead -- Symptom management: complementary and alternative medicine/integrated health / Joy Parkes and Sue Padmore -- Symptom management: common symptoms / Catherine Black -- Symptom management: difficult/complex symptoms / Catherine Black -- Symptom management: emergencies / Catherine Black -- Symptom management: the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP) / Richard Latten, John Ellershaw and Deborah Murphy -- Spirituality / The Reverend Ian M Delinger -- Stress and palliative care / Jan Woodhouse -- Technology: equipment procurement / Sonya Currey, Janice Foster and Virginia C. Williams -- Value of life / Moyra A. Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood.

Do you need a succinct introduction to the key theories and principles of palliative care and their application to practice? 'Key Concepts in Palliative Care' provides just this in a compact, fifty-concept guide to the field.