Positive Approaches to Living with End Stage Renal Disease: Psychosocial and Thanatalogic Aspects

ISBN-13: 9780275920197 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 239 str.

Thomas Hardy; Mark A. Hardy; Gerald B. Appel

Opis

Aspects of cancer and cancer therapies; long-term adjustments of renal donors and recipients; community life (including support facilities and home dialysis); medical aspects of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD); psychiatric disturbances; public policy issues; the role of the doctor, staff, and society, sexuality and loss of sexual function, surgical aspects; and anticipatory grief, acute grief, and bereavement are all discussed in this book for caregivers working with ESRD patients.