Health and Social Work back issues from February 2004:
End-of-life care.(Guest Editorial)(Editorial)
Feb 01, 2004; ... End-of-life care is not a new arena for social workers who historically have provided care for dying individuals and their families in a variety of settings. What is new is that end-of-life care is finally receiving the attention that it deserves. This special issue is testimony to the ...
Social work and end-of-life care for older people: a historical perspective.
Feb 01, 2004; ... During the 20th century, vast changes occurred in how Americans die. "Death has become the province of the elderly," wrote Kearl (2000), "with nearly 80 percent of all deaths ... occurring to individuals over 65 years of age (p. 5). Although death is inevitable, social workers can promote ...
Factors that influence consideration of hastening death among people with life-threatening illnesses.
Feb 01, 2004; ... Policymakers, ethicists, health care professionals, and the courts continue to examine the issue of assisted suicide and whether individuals with life-threatening illnesses should have the legal right to hasten their deaths. The debate began in Oregon where the Death with Dignity Act ...
Nurses' and social workers' attitudes and beliefs about and involvement in life-sustaining treatment decisions.
Feb 01, 2004; ... Decisions to initiate or continue the use of life-sustaining treatments (LST) with patients of any age, and with elderly people in particular, involve ethical dilemmas and conflicts for health care providers, patients, and families (Clarke, Goldstein, & Raffin, 1994; Dorr Goold, Williams, ...
Oncolgy social workers' attitudes toward hospice care and referral behavior.
Feb 01, 2004; ... The study reported in this article was designed to determine the attitudes of oncology social workers to-ward hospice care and the frequency with which they referred terminally ill patients to hospice care. A follow-up study sought to explain the most interesting finding of the initial ...
Hope as a strategy in supervising social workers of terminally ill patients.
Feb 01, 2004; ... Hope plays a central role in the care of terminally ill clients, because it enables a search for positive elements at times of severe distress and encourages possible recovery from serious physical conditions. Clients' negative feelings of hopelessness and helplessness are liable to impair ...
The ambiguous dying syndrome.
Feb 01, 2004; ... Health professionals, policymakers, and lay people operate under the false assumption that most people will know when they have arrived at the end of life," or are "dying," or are "terminally ill." These terms are sometimes used interchangeably. No consensus has been established in the ...
Social workers' participation in the resolution of ethical dilemmas in hospice care.
Feb 01, 2004; ... A decision to accept hospice care often results only after much emotional turmoil in a family. But does this decision mean that difficult issues concerning end-of-life care cease? Patients, families, and providers may face many ethical issues throughout the provision of palliative care ...
Improving our care at life's end: making a difference.(National Health Line)
Feb 01, 2004; ... Although there are few human experiences as profound and universal as the end of life, we are only beginning to create a health care system that will allow people to die as they wish, with dignity and with as little pain as possible. The challenges to creating that system are attitudinal, ...
Relevant books received.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education. Joanna Mellor and Joann Ivy (Editors). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003, 276 pages. ISBN: 0-7890-2064-5 $59.95 hardback; ISBN: 0-7890-2065-3 $39.95 paperback. Big Book Unplugged: A Young Person's Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous ....