25. A Physical Alternative to the Hospice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgment XV
5. Part I. The Hospice Movement: Past and Present
6. 1. The Hospice: Its Changes Through Time 3
7. 2. The Hospice Movement and the Acceptance of Death 9
8. 3. The Hospice Community as Reform 18
9. 4. The Politics of Expanding Hospice Care 23
10. 5. The Hospice Movement: A Management Perspective 27
11. Part II. Ethical and Human Issues in Terminal Care
12. 6. A Right to Die? 47
13. 7. Humanistic Care of the Dying 77
14. 8. Death with Dignity 88
15. 9. Patient Rights and Responsibilities in Irreversible Disease 96
16. 10. The Right to Choose a Place to Die 101
17. Part III. Hospice Caregiving
18. 11. Hospice Care: A Better Way of Caring for the Living 109
19. 12. Relating to the Dying: A Philosophy of Continuing Care 126
20. 13. Preserving Personhood, Sexuality, and Privacy Among the Chronically 111 and Dying 129
21. 14. Humor and Laughter—Their Role in Improving the Quality of Life and of Care 132
22. Part IV. Helping the Dying: Caregiver Approaches
23. 15. A Nursing Perspective on Patient Care 139
24. 16. Spiritual Care of the Dying Person 144
25. 17. Death Is Not All at Once... Living Is Day by Day 150
26. 18. The Role of a Clinical Psychologist 156
27. 19. Group Therapy for Life Enrichment 163
28. 20. The Senior Citizen as a Hospice Volunteer 181
29. Part V. Patients and Illnesses
30. 21. Helping Preterminal and Terminal Cancer Patients Function Within the Community 193
31. 22. Caring for the Patient with Pulmonary Emphysema 196
32. 23. Illness Factors in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)— A Neuromuscular Disease 202
33. Part VI. Alternatives to In-Hospice Care
34. 24. Some Questions About Hospice Development 213
35. 25. A Physical Alternative to the Hospice 216
36. 26. A Psychiatric Setting and Total Care 219
37. 27. Caring for the Terminally III: The Story of an American Hospital 224
38. 28. Integrating Care for the Terminally 111 Within a Comprehensive Geriatric Center 229
39. 29. Dying and Death of a Hospice in a Tertiary Hospital: Case History 239
40. 30. Hospice Home Care 245
41. 31. Problems of Terminal Care: Behavior Approaches and Environment Stimulation 253
42. Part VII. A Look to the Future
43. 32. Health in the 1980s:Toward Optimum Human Existence 267
44. 33. Relating Medicine to Education—A Curriculum Outline 274
45. 34. Patient Support in the Twenty-First Century 279
46. Index 285
47. Contributors 295