Research Catalog

Title

Compassionate communities : case studies from Britain and Europe / edited by Klaus Wegleitner, Katharina Heimerl, and Allan Kellehear.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wegleitner, Klaus
• Heimerl, Katharina
• Kellehear, Allan, 1955-

Description

xvii, 221 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge key themes in health and society

Uniform Title

Routledge key themes in health and society.

Subject

• Hospice care > Great Britain > Case studies
• Hospice care > Europe > Case studies
• Terminal care > Great Britain > Case studies
• Terminal care > Europe > Case studies
• Community Health Services > organization & administration
• Terminal Care > organization & administration
• Community Health Planning > organization & administration
• Empathy
• Palliative Care > organization & administration
• Public Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hospices and community development : a national UK perspective / Libby Sallnow, Antonia Bunnin, and Heather Richardson -- Developing community support networks at the end of life in Weston-super-Mare, UK / Julian Abel and Ditch Townsend -- Compassionate community in Shropshire, West Midlands, England / Paul Cronin -- Compassionate community in Sandwell, West Midlands, England / Mangula Patel -- Community partnerships : a public health approach to ageing, death, dying and loss / Siobhan Horton, Rachel Zammit and Bie Nio Ong -- The compassionate city charter : inviting the cultural and social sectors into end of life care / Allan Kellehear -- 'Join bill united!': compassionate communities in Limerick, Ireland / Kathleen McLoughlin and Jim Rhatigan -- Caring community in living and dying in Landeck, Tyrol, Austria / Klaus Wegleitner, Patrick Schuchter, and Sonja Prieth -- 'Ethics from the bottom up ': promoting networks and participation through shared stories of care / Patrick Schuchter and Andreas Heller -- Dementia-friendly pharmacy : a doorway in the community in Vienna and Lower Austria / Petra Plunger, Verena Tatzer, Katharina Heimerl, and Elisabeth Reitinger -- A convent initiative : compassionate community in Solothurn, Switzerland / Elisabeth Wappelshammer and Christine Weissenberg -- Community palliative care in Eastern Switzerland : the role of local forums in developing palliative care culture and enabling ethical discourse / Katharina Linsi and Karin Kaspers-Elekes -- Dementia-friendly communities : together for a better life with (and without) dementia / Reimer Gronemeyer and Verena Rothe -- On the way to a caring community? : the German debate / Thomas Klie.

ISBN

• 9781138832794
• 1138832790
• 9781315735801 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014048611

OCLC

• 914394066
• SCSB-11218776

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library