Chronic illness and disability : principles for nursing practice edited by Esther Chang, Amanda Johnson - 1st ed - Edinburgh ; New York Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier 2008 - xiv, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Section 1: Frameworks for chronic illness and disability --1. Chronic illness and disability: an overview --2. Role of the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team --3. Spirituality and the nurse: engaging in human suffering, hope and meaning --4. Psychosocial care --5. Stigmatisation of people living with a chronic illness and/or disability --6. Sexuality in chronic illness and disability --7. Developmental and intellectual disability --8. Management of chronic pain --9. Rehabilitation for the individual and family --10. Impact of obesity on chronic illness and disability --11. Palliation in chronic illness --Section 2: Principles of practice for supportive care --12. Schizophrenia --13. Depression: its scope, impacts, treatment and nursing management --14. Advanced dementia --15. Stroke (cerebrovascular accident) --16. Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease --17. Chronic asthma --18. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --19. Ischaemic heart disease --20. Chronic heart failure --21. Chronic kidney disease --22. Chronic diseases of the bowel --23. Non-melanocytic skin cancers and melanoma --24. Ageing and disability (osteoarthritis and osteoporosis) --25. Diabetes --26. HIV/AIDS --27. Cancer

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