This is a unique resource to improve this difficult and highly sensitive area of communication, ideal for both individual use and by groups or in teaching. It offers a visual, interactive training experience, linking with supportive care frameworks. It is accompanied bya DVD which contains filmed scenes illustrating a range of challenging dialogues between health workers and a patient and his family through the journey of his terminal illness. Accompanying booklet highlights communication issues with suggested exercises, reflection points and advice. It is available as individual-use-only product for self-reflective learning, or institutional-use product for tutored learning, both priced to give excellent value.
The Community Hospital and Its Expanding Role in Thanatology
This work is aimed at those faced with the task of caring for people who have no hope of survival in the long term.
Using his own personal experience as someone who was once diagnosed as being terminally ill and as a doctor, the author attempts to make the dying process understandable and tries to prepare families and friends for the particular ...
Terminal Illness: Caring for Yourself and Others
Care of the Dying
Medical Care of the Dying
Lernen, mit dem Tod zu leben: menschenwürdiges Sterben - Möglichkeiten der Sterbebegleitung - Hospizbewegung