This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients'and families'concerns about nutrition and hydration. Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care is a comprehensive resource that provides hands-on practical information that readers can use in everyday hospice practice. The chapters identify problems, solutions, and ethical issues of nutrition and hydration in hospice care. The contributing authors provide the way for health care professionals, especially those in nursing, dietary, and pharmacy units, to jointly and effectively manage troublesome...

Here is a unique and authoritative reference for assessing and diagnos ing nutritional problems, developing a nutrition plan, implementing an d evaluating care, understanding cultural attitudes, counseling the pa tient and family, controlling many troublesome symptoms through nutrit ion, and understanding illness-specific considerations. It provides fo rms and charts, and discusses the health care professional's role and personal considerations for the nutrition specialist.