Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care
Patients with life-limiting illness and their families require the skills of many professionals, but also the support of their community. Psychosocial issues for people with life-limiting and terminal illness are complex and require excellent team work and the ability to look beyond the obvious. Whilst most professionals are comfortable in assessing and supporting even the most intimate of physical problems, assessing and supporting the emotional, social, and spiritual sequelae of terminal illness is challenging. More attention has been given to the psychosocial needs of adults with cancer than for any other group. This new edition of a successful text examines current practice and provision of psychosocial care across the lifespan and includes neonatal palliative care, care of the frail elderly, those with dementia and the marginalized. It is a highly practical text, comprehensively reviewing the current literature and evidence in order to demonstrate good, and better, research-based practice in psychosocial care.