The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual specialties to ""own"" the management of elderly with the same vigor as they ""own"" other key management competencies within their specialty. This clinically focused and highly practical handbook, which compliments the more comprehensive text Geriatric Palliative Care by Sean.
Contents
Cover; Geriatric Palliative Care; Series; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; SECTION IOverview; 1 Geriatric Palliative Care; 2 Principles of Geriatric Palliative Care; 3 Medication Management in Older Adults; 4 Special Issues in Caregiving; 5 Financing Hospice and Palliative Care; 6 Ethical Decision-Making; 7 Prognostication; 8 Advance Care Planning; 9 Communication Skills; 10 Managing Conflict; 11 Care Transitions; 12 The Hospice Model of Palliative Care; 13 Health Insurance; SECTION IISpecial Issues in Geriatric Palliative Care; 14 Palliative Care Emergencies; 15 Dying at Home
16 Cultural Considerations17 Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 18 Clinician Self-Care; 19 Last Hours of Living; 20 Grief and Bereavement; 21 Spirituality; 22 Palliative Sedation; 23 Responding to Requests for Hastened Death; 24 Assistive Aids and Devices; 25 Rehabilitation; 26 Mechanical Ventilation; 27 Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Section IIICaregivers; 28 Caregivers; SECTION 4Symptoms; 29 Management of Pain in Older Adults; 30 Fatigue; 31 Failure to Thrive; 32 Fever and Sweating; 33 Behavioral Disorders in Dementia; 34 Delirium; 35 Terminal Delirium; 36 Sleep Disorders