Palliative care for older people
A public health perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 May 2015
- ISBN 9780198717614
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 247x172x18 mm
- Weight 582 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 Halftones 0
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Short description:
Offering not only insights into the current state of policy work around the world; it also offers examples of good practice and recommendations for the future. Recommendations that can inspire, support, and direct healthcare policy and decision-making at organisational, regional, national and international levels.
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Current projections indicate that by 2050 the number of people aged over 80 years old will rise to 395 million and that by this date 25-30% of people over the age of 85 will show some degree of cognitive decline. Palliative care for older people: A public health perspective provides a comprehensive account of the current state of palliative care for older people worldwide and illustrates the range of concomitant issues that, as the global population ages, will ever more acutely shape the decisions of policy-makers and care-givers.
The book begins by outlining the range of policies towards palliative care for older people that are found worldwide. It follows this by examining an array of socio-cultural issues and palliative care initiatives, from the care implications of health trajectories of older people to the spiritual requirements of palliative care patients, and from the need to encourage compassion towards end-of-life care within communities to the development of care pathways for older people.
Palliative care for older people: A public health perspective is a valuable resource for professionals and academics in a range of healthcare and public health fields to understand the current state of policy work from around the world. The book also highlights the social-cultural considerations that influence the difficult decisions that those involved in palliative care face, not least patients themselves, and offers examples of good practice and recommendations to inspire, support, and direct healthcare policy and decision-making at organisational, regional, national and international levels.
Table of Contents:
PART I Palliative Care for Older People : An introduction
A public health perspective to palliative care for older people: An introduction
PART II Organization of and policies for palliative care for older people
Long-term Care Systems
Development of palliative care in long-term care
Development of integrated person-centred care in long-term care
Policies on palliative care for older people in Africa
Policies on palliative care for older people in Asia
Policies on palliative care for older people in Australia
Policies on palliative care for older people in Europe
Policies on palliative care for older people in North America
Policies on palliative care for older people in Latin America and the Caribbean
PART III Socio-cultural and clinical context of dying in old age
Dying in place in old age: public health challenges
Symptoms and trajectories experienced by older people approaching and at the end of life: Implications to care
End-of-life decisions for older patients who are approaching death
Ethical issues in palliative care for older people
Cultural issues in palliative care for older people
Spirituality and spiritual palliative care in older people
PART IV Use and access of palliative care for older people
Use of generalist and specialist palliative care for older people
Compassionate communities: Caring for older people towards the end of life
Palliative care for older people with dementia
Ladislav Volicer, Noorhazlina Binte Ali and Joyce Simard
Collaboration between professionals as a necessary condition for palliative care
Communication and advanced care planning (ACP) in older people
PART V Innovations in palliative care for older people
EU civil society initiatives to protect the right to live and die in dignity
Care pathways for older people in need of palliative care
A program for advance care planning for older people: Respecting Patient Choices
PART V Conclusion: What does a public health approach to improving palliative care in older people look like?
A public health approach to improving palliative care for older people
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