Health Promoting Palliative Care
By Allan Kellerhear.
Description
Health promotion has traditionally focused on illness prevention, targeting the fit and well. But what about those who live with life-threatenting or terminal illness? Health-Promoting Palliative Care proposes a model of care that goes beyond simply providing care in the final stages of life and draws on critical and participatory principles from both palliative care and health promotion. Emphasizing early intervention and social approach to the problems and experiences of dying, it encourages service providers, family members, and the dying themselves to seek ways to promote emotional, soc...
ISBN(s)
0195507851, 9780195507850
