Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ivan K. Goldberg
• Austin H. Kutscher
• Sidney Malitz

Titel

Pain, Anxiety, and Grief Pharmacotherapeutic Care of The Dying Patient and The Bereaved

Ort / Verlag

Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1986

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The advances in medical technology that have transformed life-threatening diseases into long-term, chronic illnesses have yet to deal definitively with the pain and anxiety of the dying patient and the grief of the bereaved. Although the costs of protracted illness are now measured in terms of dollars and cents, allocation of resources, and decreases in the social productivity of individuals, they have a different significance when extension of life means extension of suffering. In most life-threatening illness, pain and discomfort eventually impose a toll that affects the quality of life of those, including both patients and their family members, who have benefited—until the quest for cure has become unrealistic.