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Rethinking Palliative Care : a Social Role Valorisation Approach.

This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. Applying Social Role Valorisation, it argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and recommends an alternative framewor...

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Main Author: Sinclair, Dr Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care.
Terminally ill > Social conditions.
Terminal care facilities.
Death > Social aspects.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Deinstitutionalization.
Palliative Care
Attitude to Death
Deinstitutionalization
Terminal Care
Hospices
terminal care facilities.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781847422347
1847422349
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; RETHINKING PALLIATIVECARE; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Origin of the argument; 2. Paradigm of care; 3. Palliative care; 4. Social Role Valorisation; 5. Implications for palliative care; 6. An ideal palliative care model; 7. Reconceptualising death; 8. The choice; References; Index.

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