Key Concepts in Palliative Care provides just this in a compact, fifty-concept guide to the field. Taking account of the government's "End of Life Care Strategy", contributors set out the key issues affecting practice across a range of health and social care contexts.

Table of Contents

• List of figures
• List of tables
• About the editors and contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse
• 1 Agencies: resources for adults with a palliative care need in the UK - Helen Fruin
• 2 Attributes of palliative caring - Moyra A. Baldwin
• 3 Caring for the adult: ‘a reversal of roles’ - Virginia C. Williams
• 4 Caring for the carers - Sheila Payne
• 5 Caring for the child with palliative care needs - Yvonne Flood
• 6 Caring for the older person - Victoria Ridgway
• 7 Caring for young people - Amanda Humphreys and Pat Rose
• 8 Communication - Jan Woodhouse
• 9 Concept of death - Jill McCarthy
• 10 Coronial process - Richard Griffith
• 11 Cultural issues in palliative care - Shirley Firth
• 12 Death - Jane Quigley
• 13 Environment of care: palliative care within the acute hospital care ward - John Costello
• 14 Finance issues and the organisation of palliative care - Peter Hartland
• 15 Financial aspects for patients and carers - Jan Woodhouse
• 16 Funerals - Jan Woodhouse
• 17 Good death - Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse
• 18 The globalisation of palliative care - Lynda Prescott
• 19 Holism - Moyra A. Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood
• 20 Hospice movement and evolution of palliative care - Moyra A. Baldwin
• 21 Information technology - Dion Smyth
• 22 Legal and ethical issues in palliative care - Barbara Beard
• 23 Loss, grief and bereavement - Jan Woodhouse
• 24 Marginalised groups - Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
• 25 Multi-disciplinary teams - Moyra A. Baldwin
• 26 Organ donation - Natalie A. Pattison
• 27 Organisational management of palliative care - Steve Kirk
• 28 Palliative care and the person with cancer - Debbie Wyatt
• 29 Palliative care for the person with a learning disability - Sue Read
• 30 Palliative care and the person with mental ill-health - Catherine Black and Julie Bailey-McHale
• 31 Palliative care and the person with a non-cancer diagnosis - Andrea Dean
• 32 Palliative care education - Karen Manford-Walley
• 33 Patient choices and preferences in palliative care - Stephanie Neill and Dorothy Carter
• 34 Policy drivers - Mzwandile A. Mabhala
• 35 Quality assurance and palliative care - Jill McCarthy
• 36 Reactions of patients and carers - Sue Phillips
• 37 Rehabilitation in palliative care - Claire Jones and Adrian Bunnell
• 38 Research in palliative care - Catherine Black
• 39 Resources and information: looking for answers - Jan Woodhouse
• 40 Sexuality - Moyra A. Baldwin and Jan Woodhouse
• 41 Stigma - Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
• 42 Symptom management: complementary and alternative medicine/integrated health - Joy Parkes and Sue Padmore
• 43 Symptom management: common symptoms - Catherine Black
• 44 Symptom management: difficult/complex symptoms - Catherine Black
• 45 Symptom management: emergencies - Catherine Black
• 46 Symptom management: the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient (LCP) - Richard Latten, John Ellershaw and Deborah Murphy
• 47 Spirituality - The Reverend Ian M Delinger
• 48 Stress and palliative care - Jan Woodhouse
• 49 Technology: equipment procurement - Sonya Currey, Janice Foster and Virginia C. Williams
• 50 Value of life - Moyra A. Baldwin and Joanne Greenwood