Product Description: Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses’ experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations...read more

Product Description: Das vorliegende Buch orientiert sich an den Weiterbildungsinhalten für die Zusatzbezeichnung „Palliativmedizin“. Ein Herausgeber- und Autorenteam aus der Praxis der ambulanten und stationären Palliativversorgung vermittelt prägnant und praxisnah die wesentlichen Aspekte für die Begleitung Sterbender...read more

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: Published in collaboration with Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), this eight-volume set provides palliative care nurses with quick reference guides to each of the key domains of palliative care as established by the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP)...read more

The controversy surrounding the publication of Richard Crossman's Cabinet Diaries (1975) brought to the fore opposing concepts of 'open' and 'closed' government within Britain's free society. While a balance has for the moment been struck concerning the secrecy of Cabinet proceedings, a historical question remains: by what process, and with what results, has official secrecy come to envelop the practices of modern Cabinet government? This book tackles that key question, drawing upon a uniquely wide range of official and private papers to examine the historical development of the Cabinet Office, the custodian of Cabinet secrecy. Established by Lloyd George in the administrative chaos of 1916, the Cabinet Secretariat - as it was first known - emerged as the central agency for the management of Cabinet business, working closely with the Prime Minister himself. In Sir Maurice Hankey's twenty-two-year term as Cabinet secretary, he presided over the institutionalisation of the Secretariat as an office free from partisan taint and he personally served all Britain's inter-war Prime Ministers as confidant and influential advisor.

Product Description: Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part of palliative care. In this ground-breaking book, international experts give their critical thoughts on the essence and role of compassion, in both palliative and hospice care over the past half-century...read more