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AIDS and Terminal Illness

Social Casework, 1988
The authors discuss the specific social and psychological tasks that confront individuals who are dying with AIDS. The young age of the patient, the nature of the disease process, and the social context in which the death occurs profoundly affect the patients' experience.
R, Moynihan, G, Christ, L G, Silver
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Managing symptoms in terminal illness

Journal of Wound Care, 1997
This case report illustrates the long-term wound problems faced by many patients who are terminally ill and examines the management options available
H, Melvin, N, Ivins
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Is Geriatric Medicine Terminally Ill?

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2012
Although substantial academic resources are directed to encourage interest in geriatric medicine, fewer internal medicine and family medicine residents are seeking geriatric medicine fellowship tra...
Adam G, Golden   +2 more
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Information needs in terminal illness

Social Science & Medicine, 1999
Despite evidence that doctor-patient communication affects important patient outcomes, patient expectations are often not met. Communication is especially important in terminal illness, when the appropriate course of action may depend more on patient values than on medical dogma.
J S, Kutner   +4 more
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Terminal Illness

2013
The ability of medical technology to prolong life over the past century has forced an examination of the experience and care of the dying. Many diseases that once were expected to follow a sloping illness trajectory with predictable deterioration and ultimately death are now more commonly experienced as chronic illnesses.
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Denial and terminal illness

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 1994
Denial in the terminally-ill is often seen as a problem that health care professionals, particularly social workers need to fix. Rather than seeing denial as a part of acceptance, it is seen adjust the opposite. Denial surfaces to establish control in an uncontrollable situation such as terminal illness.
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Loss and Terminal Illness

Nursing Clinics of North America, 1985
The experience of terminal illness can best be viewed as a situation of multiple losses involving the dying person, family members and friends, and the health care providers engaged in offering services to them. It is a major transition during which the central participants must cope with the personal meanings of the forthcoming death as well as other ...
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Terminal illness

2002
Abstract In this chapter I discuss the range of issues and feelings that are likely to be important in relation to care for those with a terminal illness (see also Spilling 1986; Buckman 2000; .Macleod 2000; Peberdy 2000), in an attempt to demonstrate the contribution which counselling can make to that care.
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