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Managing symptoms in terminal illness
Journal of Wound Care, 1997This 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, 2012Although 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, 1999Despite 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recognizing dying in terminal illness
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011Recognizing dying in terminally ill patients is a complex clinical skill. This article outlines the approach to the decision, common difficulties encountered in patients with both malignant and non-malignant disease, and a simple approach to considering the question ‘Is this patient dying?’
Paul M, Taylor, Miriam, Johnson
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Transferring the Terminally Ill
New England Journal of Medicine, 1984A growing awareness of the high cost of medical care has prompted doctors, hospitals, and third-party payers to reexamine many medical practices. Rules have been generated, particularly by insurance carriers, that seek to make medical practice more efficient, thereby reducing health-care costs.
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