Sheila Payne / Caroline Ellis-Hill (eds.)

Chronic and Terminal Illness

New Perspectives on Caring and Carers
Herausgeber: Ellis-Hill, Caroline; Payne, Sheila

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Students in the fields of health and social care as well as in social sciences undertaking courses with a health focus, practitioners and researchers in palliative care and all those involved in health services provision for the chronically ill will find this book extremely valuable.

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This edited book provides a critique of the theoretical concepts of caring, carers and caregivers, based on empirical evidence from recent studies with adults with acquired chronic illnesses, including terminal illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780192631671
• ISBN-10: 0192631675
• Artikelnr.: 22443741

Inhaltsangabe

* Being a carer
* Positive aspects of caring
* Caring and identity: the experience of spouses in stroke and other
chronic neurological conditions
* A longitudinal study of carers providing palliative care
* Who is a carer? Experiences of family caregivers in palliative care
* Being a carer in acute crisis: the situation for relatives of organ
donors
* Family Caregiving: A Gender-Based Analysis of Women's Experiences
* The Contribution of Carers to Professional Education
* The future: interventions and conceptual issues