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Rethinking palliative care
— a social role valorisation approach | | Author(s) | Paul Sinclair |
| Publisher | The Policy Press, Bristol, 2007 |
| Pages | 246 pp |
| Source | Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk Website: http://www.policypress.org.uk |
| Keywords | Death ; Dying ; Pain ; Terminal care ; Personnel ; Social roles. |
| Annotation | It is argued that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and to make death and dying a natural part of life. The author argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and the development of an alternative framework to the approaches found in hospices, palliative care units and community-based palliative care services. He draws on Wolf Wolfenberger's social role valorisation (SRV) theory, most recently defined as "the application of what science can tell us about the enablement, establishment, enhancement, maintenance and/or defence of valued social roles for people". The book is arranged in three parts, the first of which reviews the evolution of palliative care in the context of formal care. Part Two explores the social devaluation of people who are dying as the necessary effect of how palliative care is organised; and SRV is suggested as a tool for analysing the palliative care system and for remedying social devaluation. Part Three applies ideas for tackling social devaluation in palliative care that are used in the intellectual disability services sector, particularly the shift away from institutional models of care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071005004 B |
| Classmark | CW: CX: CT7: LV: QM: TM5 |
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