Product Description: New in Paperback! The "Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine" has firmly established itself as the definitive book on the subject and is highly acclaimed world-wide. The new edition has been significantly revised and updated to reflect the enormous changes in palliative care over the last five years...read more

Product Description: This book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilites of those who leade, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is therefore of major importance for family doctors, nurses and all those committed to maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the dying person...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Derek Doyle's name is known to everyone involved in palliative care, not just through his clinical skills and long-term commitment to the field but also as a brilliant communicator and educator. Domiciliary Palliative Care is a practical handbook for everybody who cares for people with far-advanced disease in the community...read more

Product Description: This unique book is a clear and practical guide for relatives on all aspects of caring for a dying person, focusing mainly on caring for someone at home. Derek Doyle authoritatively and sympathetically covers planning care, physical, emotional, and spiritual problems, visiting in hospital and hospice, communicating with health professionals, dietary requirements, funeral arrangements, and grief and bereavement...read more