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With more people living longer lives, there is increased importance in the health care industry on improving services for the elderly. This comprehensive book gives an expert overview of the topics and challenges, along with imperative ethical and legal frameworks.

With more people living longer lives, there is increased importance in the health care industry on improving services for the elderly. This comprehensive book gives an expert overview of the topics and challenges, along with imperative ethical and legal frameworks. The book also details existing programs and benefits in relation to a realistic portrayal of population needs. Other important issues are covered such as long-term palliative care a...

This volume examines the specific areas of concern that the Collaborative for Palliative Care group has addressed in its education programs and advocacy, as well as the processes that have been so successful in building community assets.

Exploring how moral phenomenology could provide fruitful alternatives to traditional frameworks in bioethics, this book explores new approaches to pain and suffering, evaluation and moral deliberation about treatment options and medical futility, surrogacy, decision-making and moral agency, and end-of-life experiences of care.

This text exploits the power of phenomenological methods to access and describe lived moral experiences of patients and their families, their fundamentally social nature, and the genetic, social and developmental origins of relational agency, suffering and decision making.