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Title Advance care planning : communicating about matters of life and death / Leah Rogne, PhD, Susana Lauraine McCune, MA, CT, editors.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 383 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents pt. I. Advance care planning : promise and challenge -- pt. II. Best practices for communicating about end-of-life care -- pt. III. Implementing advance care planning : model programs -- pt. IV. Systems level change : charting a new path for dying, death, and end-of-life care -- pt. V. Resources.
Summary While advance directives hold a great deal of promise for ensuring self-determination and quality of life near its end, the majority of Americans face life-threatening illness without having completed effective advance care planning. This volume recounts the history of advance directives, chronicling the evolution of an approach that initially focused on completing forms, to one that now emphasizes more comprehensive strategies for facilitating conversations about end-of-life care and planning for dying and death. It provides helpful strategies for initiating and guiding discussions among pro.
Subject Communication in medicine.
Life care planning.
Terminal care.
Medical personnel and patient.
Chronically ill -- Family relationships.
Communication.
Misinformation.
Advance Care Planning
Communication
Terminal Care
Professional-Patient Relations
Communication en médecine.
Soins de longue durée -- Planification.
Soins en phase terminale.
Relations personnel médical-patient.
Testament biologique.
Communication.
Information.
Mésinformation.
MEDICAL -- Terminal Care.
Communication
Chronically ill -- Family relationships
Communication in medicine
Life care planning
Medical personnel and patient
Terminal care
Added Author Rogne, Leah, editor.
McCune, Susana Lauraine, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Advance care planning. New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2014] 9780826110213 (DLC) 2013028155 (OCoLC)854541662
ISBN 9780826110220 (electronic bk.)
0826110223 (electronic bk.)
9781306083768
1306083761
9780826110213
0826110215
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AU@ 000054145397
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DEBBG BV041572589
DEBBG BV043040138
DEBBG BV044189376
DEBSZ 424633361
DEBSZ 431474494

 
    
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