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; gynaecological cancer and palliative cancer care; and neonatal palliative care.
Preface; Identifying the Palliative Care Needs of Home-Based People with End-Stage Dementia & their Carers; Mental Distress in Children Orphaned by AIDS:: The Efficacy of Natural Mentoring as Palliative Care; Quality of Sexual Life of Nursing Home Residents; Back to the Future:: A Research Journey in Haematology & Palliative Care; The Changing Role of the Licensed Practical Nurse in Nursing Home Care; Special Considerations for Providing Care for Obese Nursing Home Residents; Palliative Care & Dementia:: Is a Good Death Possible at Home?; Where & How Non-Oncological Respiratory Patients Die:: A Palliative Answer; Can Data Envelopment Analysis Be Used to Study Performance Efficiency in Nursing Homes?; Quality of Life for Older Persons Living in Nursing Homes:: A Cross-Sectional Study; Neonatal Palliative Care:: New Practice, New Challenges; Depression & Mood Distress among Female Patients with Gynaecological Cancer in a Programme of Palliative Cancer Care; Index.
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