Edition |
Rev. and updated ed. |
Description |
xxv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
A Johns Hopkins Press health book |
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Johns Hopkins Press health book.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index. |
Contents |
Some Who Died at Home -- Home Death: A Return to Tradition -- The Term Caregiver -- Factors Contributing to the Trend -- The Desire for Control -- The Hospice Movement -- The Limitations of Medical Science -- Advances in Home-based Technology and Pharmacology -- Change in Insurance Reimbursement -- Problems of Caregiving -- The Dying Person -- Intimacy -- The Caregiver's Responsibility -- Physical and Emotional Stamina -- Expenses -- Deciding Whether to Become a Caregiver -- The Research for This Book -- The Method -- The Informants -- Taking the Patient Home to Die -- Participating in Hospital Care -- The Appropriateness of Treatment -- Procedures -- Bedside Nursing -- Communicating with the Hospital Staff -- The Decision to Discharge the Patient -- Discharge Options -- Planning the Discharge -- The Transfer Home -- Rehospitalization -- Reasons for Readmission -- Considering Readmission -- Strangers in the Home: The Use of Formal Support -- The Functions of Formal Support -- To Provide Respite -- To Provide Skilled Care -- To Supply Information and Reassurance -- To Offer Spiritual Support -- Deciding to Use Formal Support -- Assessing the Need for Services -- Types of Agencies -- Hospice -- Home Care -- Health Maintenance Organization -- Professionals Who Work in the Home -- Physicians -- Nurses -- Home Health Aides -- Other Professionals -- Gaining Access to the Formal System -- Access through Discharge from the Hospital -- Access without Prior Hospitalization -- Contacting an Agency -- Preparations. |
Summary |
"A growing number of people choose to live their final weeks or months at home. For patients who cannot benefit from acute care in the hospital, home care offers an alternative to a nursing home or hospice. Advances in medical technology and pharmacology allow even those with serious illnesses to remain at home relatively free of pain and symptoms, and professional services are increasingly available to assist family caregivers with work that is often physically and emotionally exhausting." "First published in 1991, Dying at Home examined the reasons behind this trend and offered practical advice about assuming as much control as possible over the process of dying. In this thoroughly updated edition, medical anthropologist and gerontologist Andrea Sankar keeps her focus on the patient and loved ones while providing the latest information on hospice home care teams, pain medications, HIV and AIDS, legislation on death with dignity, physician-assisted suicide, and sources of information and support for patients and families."--Jacket. |
Subject |
Terminally ill -- Home care.
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Home Nursing. (DNLM)D006701
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Caregivers. (DNLM)D017028
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Terminal Care. (DNLM)D013727
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Terminally ill -- Home care.
(OCoLC)fst01147884
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Genre/Form |
Popular Work. (DNLM)D020496
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Other Form: |
Online version: Sankar, Andrea. Dying at home. Rev. and updated ed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)657300051 |
ISBN |
0801862027 (alk. paper) |
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9780801862021 (alk. paper) |
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0801862035 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780801862038 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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