This book is a resource that can stand on its own as a primary text for undergraduate and
graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement, and can be used to good effect as a …

End of life and palliative care has improved in recent decades but the
psychopharmacological options available to clinicians and patients in these contexts remain …

There is a widespread belief by some health care providers and the wider community that
medications used to alleviate symptoms may hasten death in hospice patients. Conversely …

This article examines the evolution of and need for" end-of-life conversations." Barriers to
end-of-life discussions that have been identified in patients and families, health care …

This report presents a review of 1988 and onwards research and other literature on end-of-
life (EOL) care volunteers. Only 18 research or case studies articles were identified for an …

We live amid increasing ethical plurality and fragmentation while at the same time more and
more questions of moral gravity confront us. Some of these questions are new, such as …

It has become commonplace to say that contemporary western society is' deathdenying '.
This characterization, which sociologists have termed the'denial of death thesis ', first arose …

As a society and as individuals, we have come to recognize ourselves as 'death‐denying', a
self‐characterisation particularly prominent in palliative care discourse and practice. As part …

EXPERIENCING LONELINESS (ie, the negative emotional response to a discrepancy
between the desired quality and the achieved quality of one's social network; Peplau & …

Hospice care is perceived as enhancing life quality for patients with advanced, incurable
illness, but cost comparisons to non-hospice patients are difficult to make. The very large …