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Author Hardy, Mark A

Title Psychosocial Aspects of End-Stage Renal Disease : Issues of Our Times
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Communication Between the Disciplines in Care of Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease; I. Renal Disease and the Family; End-Stage Renal Disease: Family Responses; Families Coping with the Multiple Crises of Chronic Illness; Strategic Short-Term Therapy; Conclusion; Is Ignorance Bliss? ESRD Patients' Reactions to the Question of Spousal Fidelity; Method; Results; Discussion; Marital and Family Characteristics of Home and Hospital Dialysis Patients; Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis; Method; Results; Discussion
II. Psychosocial Dimensions of Renal DiseasePsychological and Social Adaptation of CAPD and Center Hemodialysis Patients; Adaptation to Chronic Hemodialysis; Adaptation to CAPD; Methods; Study Instruments; Results; Discussion; Artificial Organs, Organ Transplantation, and Dealing with Death; The Paradox of Post-Transplant Depression and Noncompliance; Transplantation and the Issue(s) of Death; Managing the Grief of the Transplant Patient; An Integrated Approach to Psychotherapy with the ESRD Population: A Case Presentation; Case Presentation; Psychodynamic Formulation; Behavioral Formulation
InterventionOutcome; Illness Intrusiveness and the Psychosocial Impact of End-Stage Renal Disease; Objective and Perceived Intrusiveness; Determinants of Intrusiveness in ESRD; Intrusiveness and Psychosocial Well-Being and Distress in ESRD; Conclusions and Implications; Helping Patients Cope with the Loss of a Renal Transplant; Stressors Associated with the Loss of a Renal Transplant; Helping Patients Cope; Case Illustrations; Conclusion; III. Ethical Issues in Treatment of Renal Disease; Dilemmas in Dialysis: Two Bioethical Case Studies; Methods and Principles of Analysis
Bioethical Case Study 1: Treatment RefusalBioethical Case Study 2: Incomplete Medical Disclosure; Discussion; Passions in the Arena; Kidney Transplants: A Jewish Perspective; Promoting Organ Donation Among Memorial Society Members; Materials; Method; Results; Discussion; IV. Staff/Patient Perspectives in Care of Renal Disease; Dialysis Staff Attitudes Toward Providing End-Stage Care; Methods; Hypotheses; Results; Conclusion; Recommendations; Implications for Clinical Anthropology: Skills for Nurses to Use in Dealing with Terminal End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients
Patient Perceptions of the Hemodialysis RegimenMethod; Results; Discussion; V. Renal Disease and Special Patient Populations; AIDS and End-Stage Renal Disease: Issues of Our Times; AIDS Overview; ESRD Overview; Coping with ESRD; Coping with AIDS; Social Climate Surrounding AIDS; Technology, Transfusions and Transplants: The Effect of AIDS on Patients with ESRD; Treatment and Prevention of AIDS; Psychiatric Interventions; Pharmacotherapy; Psychosocial Issues in AIDS/ESRD; Psychosocial Factors in the Care of the Geriatric Nephrology Patient; Background Information on the Elderly
Summary This thoughtful new book presents strategies for helping end-stage renal disease patients and their families deal with the psychosocial aspects of the chronic long-term illness. Technological advances in the treatment of this disease have offered much hope for improved quality in living which has led caregivers to have a greater concern for preserving the quality of life of their patients. In Psychosocial Aspects of End-Stage Renal Disease leaders in the field of many disciplines share knowledge and reveal problems that are still evident to them in the confrontation with this potentially fatal
Notes The Elderly Patient with ESRD
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Subject Chronic renal failure -- Treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Form Electronic book
Author Kiernan, John
Kutscher, Austin H
Cahill, Lynn
Benvenisty, Alan I
ISBN 9781317765318
1317765311