TY  - BOOK
ED  - Omnigraphics, Inc.,
TI  - 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
T2  - Health reference series
SN  - 9780780814967
AV  - REF R 726.8 .D3785 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Detroit, MI
PB  - Omnigraphics
KW  - Death
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Palliative treatment
KW  - Alzheimer's disease
KW  - Patients
KW  - Care
KW  - Cancer
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - HIV infections
KW  - Sudden infant death syndrome
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Life support systems (Critical care)
KW  - Donation of organs, tissues, etc
KW  - Assisted suicide
KW  - Hospice care
KW  - Long-term care of the sick
KW  - Long-term care facilities
KW  - Nursing homes
KW  - Caregivers
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Terminally ill children
KW  - Fetal death
KW  - Infants
KW  - Children and death
KW  - Grief
KW  - Bereavement
KW  - Cremation
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -