Hospice Care - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Investigating factors associated with nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care: a study in Shandong and Hong Kong.

30 Jul 2009 AIMS: To explore nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care and to identify factors associated with these attitudes. BACKGROUND: It is likely that the attitude of nursing staff can influence recovery from a pregnancy loss and that nurses ... Read more...

Portraits of caregivers of end-stage dementia patients receiving hospice care.

29 Jun 2009 The purpose of this study was to investigate how caregivers respond to the end stages of dementia with the assistance from hospice. Data were collected from 27 family caregivers over the course of 10 months, with each caregiver being interviewed up ... Read more...

Journeying with Alice: some things I don't know for certain.

9 Jun 2009 In this narrative I reflect on those things I do not know for certain. The narrative is constructed around my experience of giving Alice, a patient at the hospice where I worked as a complementary therapist, a foot massage. The narrative reveals the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Investigating factors associated with nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care: a study in Shandong and Hong Kong. 30 Jul 2009
• [A workshop on touch-relaxation for health personnel] 29 Jun 2009
• Portraits of caregivers of end-stage dementia patients receiving hospice care. 29 Jun 2009
• Journeying with Alice: some things I don't know for certain. 9 Jun 2009
• Hospice-organizational perspectives. 30 May 2009
• Family caregiver skills in medication management for hospice patients: a qualitative study to define a construct. 21 May 2009
• Can short hospice enrollment be long enough? Comparing the perspectives of hospice professionals and family caregivers. 27 Feb 2009
• Every little thing is gonna be alright. 17 Feb 2009
• Race, treatment preferences, and hospice enrollment: eligibility criteria may exclude patients with the greatest needs for care. 30 Jan 2009
• Reflection on my mother dying: a story of caring shame. 29 Jan 2009
• Motivations of hospice volunteers. 21 Jan 2009
• Developing an end-of-life care pathway to improve nurses' bereavement care. 30 Dec 2008
• Mortality communication as a predictor of psychological distress among family caregivers of home hospice and hospital inpatients with terminal cancer. 30 Dec 2008
• Literacy and healthcare: the challenge of communication in home healthcare and hospice. 30 Dec 2008
• Creating a spiritual tapestry: nurses' experiences of delivering spiritual care to patients in an Irish hospice. 30 Dec 2008
• Dire deadlines: coping with dysfunctional family dynamics in an end-of-life care setting. 30 Dec 2008
• The terrible choice: re-evaluating hospice eligibility criteria for cancer. 27 Dec 2008
• Seven hours in a ditch. 29 Nov 2008
• Ethical issues for hospice volunteers. 29 Nov 2008
• Attitudes of Iranian nurses toward caring for dying patients. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Hospice Care'

Definition: Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D017051

Alternative terms: Hospice Care; Care, Hospice; Hospice Programs; Hospice Program; Program, Hospice; Programs, Hospice; Bereavement Care; Care, Bereavement;

Related Mesh Headings: Respite Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.905.400; N02.421.585.905.400;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: for the dying; /psychol permitted