Tools for Practice

Description:

Written by leading experts at Victoria Hospice, Transitions is an award-winning professional resource for hospice and palliative care team members. The new edition is a much-anticipated update of the original, first published in 2003. Encompassing the journey from diagnosis to bereavement, Transitions details appropriate assessment questions and interventions for each transition that dying patients and their families may face.


 The 2016 edition features . . .

• New case studies reflective of current palliative care programs. Diverse disease trajectories, including, not only cancer, but also end-stage renal and heart disease as well as other life-limiting conditions.
  
•  References to extensive psychosocial research. Three times the number of references than the previous edition, representing the most current understandings of psychosocial hospice palliative care.
  
• The same compassionate approaches to providing excellent holistic psychosocial care with new and updated learning and reflection activities.
  
• New focus areas on important hospice palliative care topics such as hastened death, dementia and complicated grief.
  
• Personal reflections from a wide range of professionals active in the field including social workers, counselors, nurses and physicians.
  

To purchase a copy of the book please visit www.victoriahospice.org