Diet and Nutrition in Palliative Care

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1932-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Optimal terminal and palliative care requires consideration of the patient and family unit as well as cultural and religious sensitivities. The patient’s well being in terms of mobility, anxiety, stress, social interaction, and pain control needs expert focus and attention. Furthermore, there is an increasing awareness that diet and nutritional support plays an integral part of the patient’s holistic well being. The interface between nutritional, emotional, cultural, and medicinal support challenges terminal and palliative care providers to recognize the right thing to do, often in the face of considerable uncertainty.

Currently, there is no comprehensive book on nutrition in terminal or palliative care that is suitable for novices and experts alike. Diet and Nutrition in Palliative Care addresses this deficiency in the literature. Designed for doctors, nurses, caregivers, and those working within the palliative or end of life domain, each chapter contains sections on applications to other areas of terminal or palliative care, practical methods and techniques, guidelines, key points and ethical issues. The book is divided into six sections:

Setting the Scene
Cultural Aspects
General Aspects
Cancer
Non-Cancer Conditions
Pharmacological Aspects

Despite the complexity of the correlation between diet and disease, there is now a sufficient body of evidence toencourage applying nutritional science in everyday clinical practice. Increasingly, a strong interest and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of scientific studies on nutrition enables clinicians to help patients under their care more effectively at every stage of their illness. In response to this need, this handbook presents important information on the holistic use of nutrition and diet therapy in palliative care.

Zielgruppe

Nutritionists, health practitioners, nurses, clinicians, dieticians, nutrition scientists, geriatricians and gerontologists, alternative medicine practitioners, and assisted living professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preedy, Victor R.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Altenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Palliativpflege, Sterbebegleitung, Hospiz
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Ernährungsmedizin, Diätetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SETTING THE SCENEDefinition, goal, purposesV.R. PreedyEnlightening the need for a specialized interest in food and nutrition in palliative careDefining palliative, end of life and terminal careReligion faith and end-of-life decisionsH-H BulowPain control and sedation at the end of lifeN.J. ChernyThe Nurse and end-of-life decisionsA. J. E. De VeerSedation in palliative care and its impact on nutritionK.C.P. VissersCULTURAL ASPECTSNutrition in palliative care: Western perspectivesM.P. Fuhrman Nutrition in palliative care: Japanese perspectivesT. MoritaNutritional support in palliative care: Chinese perspectivesW.-Y. HuCultural aspects of forgoing of tube feeding in dying American and Chinese patientsS.M.C. PangGENERAL ASPECTSGastrointestinal side effects in tumor therapy: Implications for nutritionF. MayerSupport for hydration at end of lifeR.L. FainsingerPalliative treatment of dysphagiaC.P. SelingerArtificial nutrition, advance directives and end of life in nursing homesC.A. MonturoHome nutritional support in end of lifeS. AntounPreparing hospice families for home: diet and nutritional aspectsK. A. KehlFatigue in hospice cancer patients: what nutritional variables does it correlate withY.-H. LaiHospice patients and help in mouth care and eating and drinkingJ.e. Munn Drugs and constipation in hospice patientsD. Weschules CANCERVitamin deficiency in patients with terminal cancerD. J. HarringtonTotal parenteral nutrition in life-limiting cancerA.P. AbernethyIncurable cancers and home total parenteral nutritionA. JatoiNutritional aspects of palliative in head and neck cancerN.E. GoldsteinNutrition and palliative care in End of Life Ovarian CancerL.J. HerrintonThe relationship between nutrition and quality of life in palliative care of cancerC. PichardNutrition and palliative total pharyngo-Iaryngo-esophagectomyT. ShinozakiNutrition and euteral stenting in palliative of cancerP. FockensDEMENTIAFeeding in advanced dementia: a palliative approachA.E. VolandesNutritional therapy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosisK. KolleweOTHER CONDITIONSNutrition in the palliative care of surgical patientsG.P. DunnNutritional support in the vegetative stateM. LuchettiNutrition and palliation in chronic woundsO.M. AlvarezNutritional support in the palliative care of adult BIV/AIDS patientsD.J. WantlandNutrition and palliative care of children with BIV/AIDSA.J. De BaetsAntioxidants in palliative care and drug induced osteoporosisS.N. ChavanNutrition and terminal renal failureJ. DotschWITHHOLDING NUTRITIONAL SUPPORTWithholding nutritional support: what is the processM. HynninenWithholding nutritional support in the ICUM. HeaneyComparisons of withholding support in Six European CountriesH.M. Buiting

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Victor R. Preedy is the Director of the Genomics Centre in the department of Nutrition and Dietetics at King’s College in London.