Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users: Making Life PossibleJessica Kingsley Publishers, 15/11/2006 - 272 من الصفحات This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. It is the first to investigate specialist palliative care social work from this viewpoint. |
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... she decided to turn to a hospice for help. He also had cancer but had not considered hospice support for himself. My husband was horrified...hospice – terminal, you know, the last resort. (Woman patient, white UK, age group 66–75) That ...
... she was one of many who drew a distinction between hospice and hospital care. She said: I think the atmosphere's good when you go in there, it's a different atmosphere to going in a hospital...and the people in there are different aren ...
... she was unprepared for his death soon after referral: By the time he got to [the hospice] he was quite ill, they ... she made about coming here [to the hospice]...and when he said no, she didn't bother asking again, and it wasn't until ...
... She couldn't do enough for him... (Bereaved woman, white UK, age group 36–45) However, many people were initially reluctant to respond to our question, and comments like 'you wouldn't want to know' were common. We found that, when ...
... –55) Some service users had been let down as promises had not been kept. This woman had seen a non-specialist social worker earlier in her illness: I will do this for you [she said] but it 48 PALLIATIVE CARE, SOCIAL WORK AND SERVICE USERS.
المحتوى
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Developing the Discussion | 131 |
How We Carried Out the Research
| 227 |
The Interview Schedule
| 247 |
References
| 252 |
Subject Index
| 261 |
Author Index
| 266 |