American College of Physicians
Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer
When quality of life is the primary goal of care
For family, friends, and hospice workers caring for persons with advanced cancer at home, when quality of life is the primary goal
Download the Guide
You can download the entire book or individual chapters in Microsoft Word '97 (Windows) format.
The entire book
ACP Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer (195k, Zipped. Requires WinZip to expand.)
Individual chapters
Contents (30k)
Preface (25k)
Dying Person's Guide to Dying (40k)
Using This Guide (43k)
Caregiving (98k)
Cancer Pain (125k)
Shortness of Breath (46k)
Problems with Communication, Mental Confusion, and Seizures (53k)
Getting "Respite" Care or Extra Help at Home (53k)
How To Help During the Final Weeks of Life (50k)
What To Do Before and After the Moment of Death (83k)
Helping Younger People Cope with Death and Funerals (86k)
Grieving (60k)
Adapting chapters from the Home Care Guide for Cancer for use in Advanced Cancer (88k)
Staff
Editor
Peter S. Houts, PhD
Associate Editors
Julia A. Bucher, RN, PhD
Balfour M. Mount, MD
Susan E. Britton, RN
Arthur M. Nezu, PhD
Christine Maguth Nezu, PhD
Harold A. Harvey, MD
Contributors
Ellen Jaeger, ACSW, LSW
Dale B. Schelzel, RN
Sandra J. Poljaric, RN
Kathy B. Kambic, RN
Elise M. Givant, RN
Georgia L. Trostle, RN
Glenda M. Trumpower, MSW
Project Coordinator
Carole A. Bean
This book is endorsed by the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians.
Copyright © 1997 by the American College of Physicians. The American College of Physicians gives permission to reproduce and distribute copies of this plan provided it is not altered and its use is not for profit. Users can remove the left column (containing the book contents and the word "Top") when making copies for distribution. For information on subsidiary and for-profit use, contact Diane McCabe. Phone: 215-351-2642; fax: 215-351-2644; e-mail: dmccabe@mail.acponline.org.
The authors of this book would greatly appreciate receiving feedback from persons who read and distribute chapters.
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