When Someone Dies

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A Practical Guide to Holistic Care at the End of Life

By: Hannah Cooke

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Paperback | 5 July 2000

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To ensure death with dignity, patients need holistic care. This means that their practical, social, emotional and spiritual needs must all be met. Hannah Cooke links all these areas and provides practical support and advice on areas such as choices of treatment (including the use of complementary therapies), pain control, counselling and religious beliefs. There is also a section on the care of the bereaved with a list of helpful organizations that can be contacted. She also includes a list of services offering help and counselling - when to call the coroner, organ donation, wills, how death is viewed by people of different faiths, as well as advice on sitting with dying people.

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..".a simple easy-to-access fund of information and addresses [...] The final chapter on different religions and beliefs is particularly interesting and informative. [...] Overall this book is well written and easy to read. [...] ...a worth-while addition to any medical library."Physiotherapy and practical advice on caring for the bereaved [...] This book will sit comfortably in any clinical area and is an extemely useful guide to the practical issues of caring for people at the end of their lives."Nursing Standard

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Non-Fiction Medicine Nursing & Ancillary Services Nursing Nursing Specialities Terminal Care Nursing Midwifery Complementary Medicine Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Mind, Body, Spirit Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health

Preface	p. ix
Caring for Dying Patients and Their Families
Communication with dying patients and their families	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Talking to the dying patient	p. 3
Staff communication	p. 6
Communication difficulties	p. 7
Communicating with relatives	p. 11
Training in counselling and communication	p. 13
Patient education and support organizations	p. 14
Choices for dying people	p. 26
Choices about treatment and care	p. 26
Choices about where to live and where to die	p. 27
Last wishes: making the most of the life that is left	p. 31
Family reconciliation and reunion	p. 35
Pets	p. 36
Organizations offering practical help and support	p. 37
Patient comfort and control of symptoms	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Pain	p. 41
Other distressing symptoms	p. 44
Complementary therapies	p. 45
Useful resources	p. 47
Good practice, quality and audit in care of the dying	p. 51
Wills and end of life decisions	p. 57
Wills	p. 57
The 'living will' or advance directive	p. 59
Resuscitation instructions	p. 63
Care of the Patient After Death
Caring for the patient after death	p. 69
Verification of death	p. 69
Last Offices	p. 69
The patient with no next of kin	p. 76
Organ donation and donation of bodies	p. 80
Organ donation	p. 80
Bequeathing a body for anatomical dissection	p. 85
Donation of sperm and embryos	p. 86
Care of the Bereaved
Supporting the bereaved	p. 91
The effects of bereavement	p. 91
The 'tasks of mourning'	p. 94
Risk factors in bereavement	p. 96
Resources about bereavement	p. 97
Helping bereaved children	p. 98
Support organizations for the bereaved	p. 101
Good practice, quality and audit in care of the bereaved	p. 105
Practical matters following a death	p. 110
Collecting the death certificate	p. 110
Registering a death	p. 111
Post mortem examination and Coroner's enquiries	p. 112
Arranging a funeral	p. 114
Caring for the Religious Needs of the Dying
Meeting religious needs in the hospital setting	p. 127
Nursing the dying of different faiths	p. 127
The hospital chaplaincy	p. 130
Spiritual healing	p. 132
Religious traditions and health care	p. 134
The Baha'i faith	p. 134
Buddhism	p. 137
Christianity	p. 139
Hinduism	p. 154
Islam	p. 157
Jainism	p. 162
Judaism	p. 163
The Sikh faith	p. 168
The Zoroastrian faith	p. 171
New religious movements (cults)	p. 173
Humanism/atheism	p. 178
Index	p. 179
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