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Welche Formen der Lebensverlängerung dienen den Menschen? Wo wird Lebensverlängerung zur bloßen Sterbensverlängerung ohne therapeutischen Nutzen? Dies sind die drängenden Grund- fragen der modernen Intensivmedizin. Lebensverlängerung ist die Aufgabe jeden Arztes. Häufig ist dies am Lebensende mit großen Belastungen für Schwerkranke und ihre Angehörigen, aber wenig Heilungserfolg verbunden. Davon zeugen Patientenverfügungen, die auf eine stärkere Rückbindung der Behandlungsstrategien an den Willen des Patienten zielen. Das Buch untersucht die Möglichkeiten zur Humanisierung der Intensivmedizin und gibt Entscheidungshilfen für Patienten, Ärzte und Angehörige. Es klärt die ärztlichen Bedingungen der Pflicht zur Lebensverlängerung und der Not des Sterbenlassens durch Beiträge führender Chirurgen.

medical ethics --- end of life care --- life support --- Medical ethics.

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The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient’s bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.

Medical care --- Medical economics. --- Terminal care --- Medical wastes --- Sustainability. --- Environmental aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- cancer, death, end-of-life, care, health care, health, policy, health policy, end of life, end-of-life care, hospital, medicine, medical care, costs, economy, environment, ecology.

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This title gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad invisibility.

Urban poor --- Terminal care --- Death --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- City dwellers --- Poor --- Social aspects --- Care and treatment --- Medical care

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"Drawing on her family's own experiences and those of other parents facing the death of a child from illness or a life-limiting condition, Sacha Langton-Gilks explains the challenges, planning, and conversations that can be expected during this traumatic period. Practical advice such as how to work with the healthcare professionals, drawing up an Advance Care Plan, and how to move care into the home sit alongside tender observations of how such things worked in her own family's story. The book also includes a template person-centred planning document, developed by experts in the field. Empowering and reassuring, this book will help families plan and ensure the best possible end-of-life care for a child or young person."--

Children and death. --- Terminal care. --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death --- Death and children --- Care and treatment --- Medical care

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Seit dem Beginn der Hospizbewegung hat das Ehrenamt in der Sterbebegleitung eine zentrale Bedeutung. Michaela Fink und Oliver Schultz beleuchten die vielfältigen Ansätze der Sterbebegleitung, ebenso wie die Herausforderungen der Gewinnung und Bindung Ehrenamtlicher vor dem Hintergrund krisenhafter gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Einen besonderen Fokus legen sie dabei auf Bereiche informeller ehrenamtlicher Sterbebegleitung, die z.B. in Wohlfahrtsverbänden sichtbar werden. Angesichts des Generationenproblems in der Hospizbegleitung eröffnen diese bisher wenig beachteten Bereiche neue Perspektiven.

Hospiz; Wohlfahrtsverband; Sterbebegleitung; Ehrenamt; Krise; Hospizbegleitung; Zivilgesellschaft; Mensch; Alter; Medizinsoziologie; Sozialarbeit; Soziologie; Welfare Association; End-of-life-care; Community Service; Crisis; Hospice Support; Civil Society; Human; Aging Studies; Sociology of Medicine; Social Work; Sociology --- Aging Studies. --- Civil Society. --- Community Service. --- Crisis. --- End-of-life-care. --- Hospice Support. --- Human. --- Social Work. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Sociology. --- Welfare Association.