Caring and Well-Being: A Lifeworld Approach

ISBN-13: 9781138809246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Kathleen Galvin; Les Todres

Opis

Investigating what it means to be human in a health and social care context and what the things that make us feel more human are, this book presents new perspectives about how professionals can enhance their capacity for humanly sensitive care.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Need for Humanised Care  Part 1: Humanising Healthcare: A Lifeworld Approach  1. A Value Framework for the Humanisation of Care  2. A Lifeworld Approach: Revisiting a Humanising Philosophy that Provides an Experiential Context for Considering Health and Illness  3. Lifeworld-led Healthcare is More than Patient-led Care  4. Caring for a Partner with Alzheimer’s: an Illustration of Research-based Knowledge for Lifeworld-led Care  Part 2: Well-being and Suffering: the Focus of Care  5. An Existential Theory of Well-being: ‘Dwelling-Mobility’  6. Kinds of Well-being: Eighteen Directions for Caring  7. Kinds of Suffering: Caring for Vulnerability  8. An Illustration of Well-being as Dwelling-Mobility: Older Peoples’ Experiences of Living in Rural Areas  Part 3: Developing the Capacity to Care  9. The Creativity of ‘Unspecialisation’: Contemplative Knowledge and Practical Wisdom  10. Complex Knowledge to Underpin Caring: Embodied Relational Understanding  11. Embodied Interpretation: One Way of Re-presenting Research Findings that may Serve to Sensitise the Empathic Imagination  12. Embodying Nursing Openheartedness: An Illustration of a Core Capacity for Caring  13. Conclusion: Caring for Well-being