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  • Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
     
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  • Life support systems (Critical care)
     
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  • Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
     
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  • Assisted suicide.
     
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  • Long-term care of the sick.
     
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  • Long-term care facilities.
     
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  • Nursing homes.
     
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  • Caregivers.
     
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  • Caregivers -- Decision making.
     
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  • Terminally ill children.
     
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  • Fetal death.
     
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  • Infants -- Death.
     
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  • Children and death.
     
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  • Grief.
     
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  • Bereavement.
     
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  • Cremation.
     
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  • Funeral rites and ceremonies.
     
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  • Death -- Economic aspects.
     
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    Death and dying sourcebook : basic consumer health information about end-of-life care and related perspectives and ethical issues, including end-of-life symptoms and treatments, pain management, quality-of-life concerns, the use of life support, patients' rights and privacy issues, advance directives, physician-assisted suicide, care giving, organ and tissue donation, funeral arrangements, and grief, along with statistical data, information about the leading causes of death, a glossary, and directories of support groups and other resources.
    Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, [2016]
    Subjects
  • Death.
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  • Terminal care.
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  • Palliative treatment.
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  • Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.
  •  
  • Alzheimer's disease -- Palliative treatment.
  •  
  • Cancer -- Palliative treatment.
  •  
  • AIDS (Disease) -- Palliative treatment.
  •  
  • HIV infections -- Palliative treatment.
  •  
  • Sudden infant death syndrome.
  •  
  • Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
  •  
  • Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
  •  
  • Life support systems (Critical care)
  •  
  • Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
  •  
  • Assisted suicide.
  •  
  • Hospice care.
  •  
  • Long-term care of the sick.
  •  
  • Long-term care facilities.
  •  
  • Nursing homes.
  •  
  • Caregivers.
  •  
  • Caregivers -- Decision making.
  •  
  • Terminally ill children.
  •  
  • Fetal death.
  •  
  • Infants -- Death.
  •  
  • Children and death.
  •  
  • Grief.
  •  
  • Bereavement.
  •  
  • Cremation.
  •  
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies.
  •  
  • Death -- Economic aspects.
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  • Death -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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  • Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc.
  • ISBN: 
    9780780814967 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) :
    0780814967 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
    Series: 
    Health reference series.
    Description: 
    xv, 525 pages ; 24 cm.
    Edition: 
    Third edition.
    Contents: 
    pt. I. End-of-life perspectives : -- Defining end of life -- Cultural response to death -- Spirituality in end-of-life care -- Chronic illness in old age -- Research findings about end-of-life care and outcomes.
    pt. II. Medical management of end-of-life symptoms : -- What is palliative care? -- Pain management and assessment -- Managing and treating fatigue -- Palliative wound care -- Acute Respiratory Distress syndrome (ARDS) -- Nutrition therapy in cancer care -- Delirium.
    pt. III. Medical decisions surrounding the end of life : -- Understanding healthcare decisions -- Preferences for care at the end of life -- Alzheimer disease and end-of-life issues -- Advanced cancer and end-of-life issues -- Human Immunodeficiency virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and end-of-life issues -- Ethics and legal issues in palliative care -- Life support choices -- Termination of life-sustaining treatment -- Organ donation and transplantation -- Physician-assisted suicide.
    pt. IV. End-of-life care facilities : -- Hospice care -- Types of long-term care -- Long-term care: making the right decisions -- Paying for long-term care -- Nursing home care -- Home care for critically ill patients.
    pt. V. End-of-life caregiving : -- Communications among patients, families, and providers -- Long-distance caregiving -- End-of-life care for people who have cancer -- Information for caregivers -- The dying process -- What to do when death occurs.
    pt. VI. Death and children : information for parents -- Caring for a terminally ill child -- Taking care of you: support for caregivers -- Pediatric palliative care -- Children's hospice and end-of-life care -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) -- Stillbirth, miscarriage, and infant death -- Grieving the death of a child -- Helping children cope with death -- Guiding children through grief.
    pt. VII. Legal and economic issues at the end of life : -- Getting your affairs in order -- Patient's rights -- Advance directives -- Financial assistance at the end of life -- Social Security issues -- Duties of an Executor / Personal Representative -- Understanding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
    pt. VIII. Final arrangements : -- Funeral services: an overview -- Planning a funeral -- Military funeral planning -- Cremation explained -- Medical certification of death -- If death occurs while traveling -- Grief, bereavement, and coping with loss -- Working through grief.
    pt. IX. Mortality statistics : -- Life expectancy: global trends -- Mortality trends in the United States -- Leading causes of death in the United States -- Life expectancy at birth -- Infant and maternal mortality trends and disparities -- Childhood risk of injury-related death -- Work-related fatalities -- Suicide facts and statistics -- Alcohol-attributable deaths -- Disparities in death from stroke.
    pt. X. Additional help and information : -- Glossary of end-of-life terms -- Support groups for end-of-life issues -- Resources for information about death and dying.
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    Summary: 
    "Provides basic consumer health information about management of end-of-life symptoms, caregiving and facility evaluation, and legal and economic issues associated with end-of-life. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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