Palliative Care in Neurological Disease: A Team Approach

by Judi Byrne, Penny McNamara, Jane Seymour, Pam McClinton

Overview

The particular needs of people with progressive long-term neurological conditions - including Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington's disease - may make care delivery and planning the last stages of life ethically, practically and clinically challenging.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429533457
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/16/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Judi Byrne, Penny McNamara, Jane Seymour, Pam McClinton

Table of Contents

Progressive neurological conditions: epidemiological and clinical picture. The principles and practice of palliative care. Supportive and palliative care needs in progressive long-term neurological conditions: an overview. Symptom relief in palliative neurological care. Challenges to communication. Patients and families. Palliative initiatives in neurological care: the PINC programme. Ethical considerations in the palliative care of patients with neurological disorders. Bereavement Support.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Marlene S. Foreman, BSN, MN (Hospice of Acadiana, Inc.)
Description: Edited by four experts in the field, this book describes chronic neurological diseases that are life limiting, the care these patients need, and the support their caregivers need, leading to a deeper understanding of what it means to live with a neurological disease.
Purpose: This book explains the team approach to holistically caring for patients living with neurological disease. These broad-based objectives are met completely by this book.
Audience: Both the content and the presentation make this book most beneficial for healthcare professionals: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, and palliative care and hospice staff. Because it is not highly technical, some patients or family members also may be interested, but it is intense.
Features: The book covers many different topics, beginning with explanations of various neurological diseases that are progressively degenerative and fatal. It provides information on communication, bearing bad news, working with the family, ethical considerations, and decision making. There are several tables, but no pictures. The appendix helps locate specific disease information.
Assessment: As a clinical nurse specialist with 19 years of experience as a nurse educator and a hospice nurse, some of that time in neurological acute care, I can attest that this book offers accurate, high quality information about the care of these patients as they need palliative and end-of-life care.

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