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1 online resource (xvii, 221 pages .) |
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Routledge key themes in health and society |
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Routledge key themes in health and society.
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| Contents |
Hospices and community development : a national UK perspective / Libby Sallnow, Antonia Bunnin, and Heather Richardson -- Developing community support networks at the end of life in Weston-super-Mare, UK / Julian Abel and Ditch Townsend -- Compassionate community in Shropshire, West Midlands, England / Paul Cronin -- Compassionate community in Sandwell, West Midlands, England / Mangula Patel -- Community partnerships : a public health approach to ageing, death, dying and loss / Siobhan Horton, Rachel Zammit and Bie Nio Ong -- The compassionate city charter : inviting the cultural and social sectors into end of life care / Allan Kellehear -- 'Join bill united!': compassionate communities in Limerick, Ireland / Kathleen McLoughlin and Jim Rhatigan -- Caring community in living and dying in Landeck, Tyrol, Austria / Klaus Wegleitner, Patrick Schuchter, and Sonja Prieth -- 'Ethics from the bottom up ': promoting networks and participation through shared stories of care / Patrick Schuchter and Andreas Heller -- Dementia-friendly pharmacy : a doorway in the community in Vienna and Lower Austria / Petra Plunger, Verena Tatzer, Katharina Heimerl, and Elisabeth Reitinger -- A convent initiative : compassionate community in Solothurn, Switzerland / Elisabeth Wappelshammer and Christine Weissenberg -- Community palliative care in Eastern Switzerland : the role of local forums in developing palliative care culture and enabling ethical discourse / Katharina Linsi and Karin Kaspers-Elekes -- Dementia-friendly communities : together for a better life with (and without) dementia / Reimer Gronemeyer and Verena Rothe -- On the way to a caring community? : the German debate / Thomas Klie |
| Summary |
Compassionate communities are communities that provide assistance for those in need of end of life care, separate from any official heath service provision that may already be available within the community. This idea was developed in 2005 in Allan Kellehear's seminal volume- Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End of Life Care. In the ensuing ten years the theoretical aspects of the idea have been continually explored, primarily rehearsing academic concerns rather than practical ones |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Hospice care -- Great Britain -- Case studies
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Hospice care -- Europe -- Case studies
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Terminal care -- Great Britain -- Case studies
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Terminal care -- Europe -- Case studies
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Empathy.
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Nurturing behavior.
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Community Health Services -- organization & administration
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Terminal Care -- organization & administration
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Community Health Planning -- organization & administration
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Empathy
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Palliative Care -- organization & administration
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Public Policy
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empathy.
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MEDICAL -- Terminal Care.
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Nurturing behavior
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Empathy
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Hospice care
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Terminal care
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Europe
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wegleitner, Klaus, editor
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Heimerl, Katharina, editor
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Kellehear, Allan, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
1315735806 |
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9781315735801 |
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9781317565062 |
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1317565061 |
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9781317565055 |
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1317565053 |
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