Compassionate Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Case Studies from Britain and Europe
Redaktion: Wegleitner, Klaus; Kellehear, Allan; Heimerl, Katharina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe provides the first major volume describing and examining compassionate community experiments in end of life care from a highly practical perspective. Focusing on community development initiatives and practice challenges, the book offers practitioners and policy makers from the health and social care sectors practical discussions on the strengths and limitations of such initiatives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317565062
• Artikelnr.: 43157496

Autorenporträt

Klaus Wegleitner is Assistant Professor, Institute of Palliative Care and Organisational Ethics, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF Vienna), Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria. Katharina Heimerl is Associate Professor and Head, Institute of Palliative Care and Organisational Ethics, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF Vienna), Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria. Allan Kellehear is 50th Anniversary Chair - Professor of End-of-Life Care, University of Bradford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Hospices and Community Development: A National UK Perspective2.
Developing Community Support Networks at the End of Life in
Weston-super-Mare, UK3. Compassionate Community in Shropshire, West
Midlands, England4. Compassionate Community in Sandwell, West Midlands,
England5. Community Partnerships: A Public Health Approach to Ageing,
Death, Dying and Loss6. The Compassionate City Charter: Inviting the
Cultural and Social Sectors Into End of Life Care7. 'Join Bill United!':
Compassionate Communities in Limerick, Ireland8. Caring Community in Living
and Dying in Landeck, Tyrol, Austria9. 'Ethics from the Bottom Up':
Promoting Networks and Participation Through Shared Stories of Care10.
Dementia-Friendly Pharmacy: A Doorway in the Community in Vienna and Lower
Austria11. A Convent Initiative: Compassionate Community in Solothurn,
Switzerland12. Community Palliative Care in Eastern Switzerland: The Role
of Local Forums in Developing Palliative Care Culture and Enabling Ethical
Discourse13. Dementia-friendly Communities: Together for a Better Life with
(and without) Dementia14. On the Way to a Caring Community? The German
Debate