| Description |
xvii, 446 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Need for a specialized interest in food and nutrition in palliative care / Eleni Tsiompanou -- What do we mean by palliative care? / Catherine Walshe -- The world's major religions' views on end-of-life issues / Hans-Henrik Bulow -- Why surgeons are ambivalent about palliative treatments: a personal perspective / Geoffrey P. Dunn -- Sedation in palliative care and its impact on nutrition / Kris C.P. Vissers, Jeroen G.J. Hasselaar, Constans A. Verhagen -- Quality of life and aspects of diet and nutrition in dying children / Michelle Koh, Finella Craig -- Nutrition and quality of life in adults receiving palliative care / Mick Fleming, Colin R. Martin, Caroline J. Hollins Martin -- Refractory cancer cachexia / D. Blum, R. Oberholzer, F. Strasser -- Nutrition and hydration in palliative care: Japanese perspectives / Tatsuya Morita -- Nutritional support in palliative care: Chinese perspectives / Meng-Yun Hsieh ... [et al.] -- An overview of the Indian perspective on palliative care with particular reference to nutrition and diet / Nanda Kishore Maroju, Vikram Kate, N. Ananthakrishnan -- Cultural aspects of forgoing tube feeding in American and Hong Kong Chinese patients at the end-of-life / Helen Yue-lai Chan, Samantha Mei-che Pang -- Stents in the gastrointestinal tract in palliative care / Iruru Maetani -- Artificial nutrition, advance directives, and end-of-life in nursing homes / Cheryl Ann Monturo -- Support for hydration at end-of-life / Robin L. Fainsinger -- Palliative treatment of dysphagia / Christian Selinger -- Fatigue in hospice cancer patients: how do nutritional factors contribute? / Yeur-Hur Lai, Shiow-Ching Shun -- Taste alteration in palliative care / Takumi Kawaguchi, Yumiko Nagao, Michio Sata -- Olfaction in palliative care patients / Arkadi Yakirevitch, Michaela Bercovici, Yoav P. Talmi -- Withholding or withdrawing nutritional support at the end-of-life in six European countries / Hilde M. Buiting ... [et al.] -- The concept of cachexia-related suffering (CRS) in palliative cancer care / R. Oberholzer, D. Blum, F. Strasser -- An overview of gastrointestinal side effects in tumour therapy: implications for nutrition / Sebastian Renger, Frank Mayer -- Nutritional status and relationship to upper gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care / Giacomo Bovio, Tiziana Sappia -- Nutrition and palliative surgery for head and neck cancer / Takeshi Shinozaki, Ryuichi Hayashi -- Total parenteral nutrition for patients with advanced, life-limiting cancer: clinical context, potential risks and benefits, and a suggested approach / Amy P. Abernethy, Jane L. Wheeler -- Vitamin deficiency in patients with terminal cancer / Renata Gorska, Dominic J. Harrington -- Position of appetite and nausea in symptom clusters in palliative radiation therapy / Janet Nguyen ... [et al.] -- Palliative gastrojejunostomy and the impact on nutrition in cancer / Poornima B. Rao, Jeffrey M. Farma -- Nutritional support in the vegetative state: artificial nutrition and hydration in the limbo between life and death / Marco Luchetti, Giuseppe Nattino -- Nutrition and appetite regulation in children and adolescents with end-stage renal failure / Kai-Dietrich Nusken, Jorg Dotsch -- Nutrition in end-stage liver disease / Valentina Medici -- Nutritional therapy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Katja Kollewe ... [et al.] -- Nutritional considerations of palliative care in rare disease: the motor disorder disease achalasia / Luca Dughera ... [et al.] -- Steroid-induced side effects affecting diet and nutrition in palliative care: oral candidiasis and other conditions / Jana Pilkey -- Appetite stimulant use in the palliative care of cystic fibrosis / Samya Z. Nasr, Darcie D. Streetman -- Warfarin-nutrition interactions in the hospice and palliative care setting / Jeffrey L. Spiess. |
| Subject |
Palliative Care. |
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Nutrition Therapy. |
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Terminal Care. |
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Palliative treatment.
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Nursing.
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Terminal care.
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| Added Author |
Preedy, Victor R.
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| ISBN |
9781439819326 (alk. paper) |
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1439819327 (alk. paper) |
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