Life to be lived
Challenges and choices for patients and carers in life-threatening illnesses
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199685011
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 233x156x10 mm
- Weight 272 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Life to be Lived examines the process of adjustment that patients and their families go through when they face the end of life. Personal research and case-based examples provide a candid look at the challenges from dealing with options from symptom and pain control to adjusting to the psychosocial implications of being ill.
MoreLong description:
How do people face life-limiting illness and death? This challenging question is discussed in-depth in Life to be Lived by looking at the feelings, hopes, fears and stresses associated with life-threatening illnesses, often experienced by patients and their carers.
Drawn from research, clinical, and pastoral experiences, the authors examine the process of adjustment that patients and their families go through in major illnesses and when approaching the end of life. Life to be Lived is written in an accessible style using many stories shared by counsellors, chaplains, patients and relatives.
Describing the messiness, uncertainties, and paradoxes that are part and parcel of living through an advanced illness, dying, and bereavement, but also what helps and heals, it reviews a range of responses to the challenges to patients and carers and the support, both personal and organisational.
Life to be Lived is essential reading for professionals and trained volunteers who work as a part of multidisciplinary teams in palliative and end-of-life care to improve their understanding of the attitudes and behaviour of patients and carers. Families and friends will also benefit from this book as they try to come to terms with their own situations and how they can cope better with them.
This publication offers an inspiring way for people in contemporary society to review death as part of life.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: The patient experience
The challenge of illness and pain
All may not be lost
Trials and adjustment
Towards a changed outlook
Part 2 : The impact on family carers
Demands on the family
Lives taken over
Coping with change
Some personal consequences for the carer
Part 3: The professional carers and their roles
Challenges for the professional carer
The power and limitations of words
Talking with patients
Chaplaincy and spiritual care
Part 4: Boundaries and resources
Blurred boundaries
A wealth of resources
Part 5: The next step
The next step
