Product Description: This comprehensive guide provides an integrated account of palliative care in dementia, outlining common problems and difficulties faced by those with dementia and their carers. It applies a palliative care approach to understanding, assessing and minimising the impact of a comprehensive range of distressing psychiatric symptoms, co-morbidities, and social and psychological distress related to dementia...read more

Product Description: As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges...read more

Product Description: Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or motor neurone disease) is a rare disease but one that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for A.L.S. are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the potential to slow its progression...read more

Product Description: Although new treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neurone disease are being developed, these at present offer only the potential to slow the disease process. Therefore a palliative care approach to the care of the patient and their family is at the center of good clinical practice in ALS/MND...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)