HMD 226 - Industry Computer Applications for Hospitality & Tourism (Essay Sample)

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Annotated bibliography about hospice.
Haley, W. E., LaMonde, L. A., Han, B., Narramore, S., & Schonwetter, R. (2001). Family caregiving in hospice: effects on psychological and health functioning among spousal caregivers of hospice patients with lung cancer or dementia. Hospice Journal.
The authors explains how hospice habitation affect the concerned, mostly spouses, either psychologically or their health functioning. All of the patients need a lot of care and attention which require their caregivers to be totally committed, resulting to forgoing of personal luxury and satisfaction and needs. According to them, spousal caregivers seem to have a rise in depression, physical health and stress as compared to non-caregivers. According to the hospice patients with dementia and lung cancer, their spousal caregivers registered evidenced clinical levels of depression which leads to poor physical health conditions.it mostly apply on older adults in the community.
Saunders, C. (1991). Hospice and palliative care. An interdisciplinary approach. London: Edward Arnold.
This article elaborates on the advantages of hospice care, it explains that the volunteers give special care to hospice patients. They use have a lot of life experiences and skills that enable them to offer practical assistance. They provide physical, emotional, social and economic care and support to all individuals from all cultural and spiritual backgrounds in a compassionate manner, which are mostly experienced in the final days of life. The volunteers are given special training on what to do during an emergency or schedule time to be adhered to during the programme.
Kane, R., Bernstein, L., Wales, J., Leibowitz, A., & Kaplan, S. (1984). A randomised controlled trial of hospice care. The Lancet, 323(8382), 894.
This paper explains how and the kind of patients that were given hospice care. Conventional care was given to the patients with ill terminal cancer, who were chosen in a random manner. The care was given to both inpatient and outpatients. At veterans Administration Hospital, there were 137 hospice patients and 110 outpatients with their family caregivers. The patients expressed satisfaction with the services and less anxiety compared to hospice outpatients.
Connor, S. R., Pyenson, B., Fitch, K., Spence, C., & Iwasaki, K. (2007). Comparing hospice and nonhospice patient survival among patients who die within a three-year window. Journal of pain and symptom management, 33(3), 238-246.
The journal tries to solve the conflict between the belief that some medications provided by health care workers tend to alleviate symptoms and hasten patients death against the clinical point of view that they prolong the patients’ lives. According to retrospective statistical analysis, patients under conventional care acquire a twenty nine days longer survival as compared to those who are not under hospice care. This meant that the survival also applied ...