- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Dying of Cancer
- 2 Should a Patient Know … ?
- 3 When a Patient is Dying
- 4 The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage
- 5 And From Sudden Death…
- 6 A Patient
- 7 the Care of the Dying
- 8 Terminal Illness
- 9 Working at St. Joseph's Hospice Hackney
- 10 The Treatment of Intractable Pain In Terminal Cancer
- 11 Distress in Dying
- 12 The Depths and the Possible Heights
- 13 The Need for Institutional Care for the Patient with Advanced Cancer
- 14 the Last Stages of Life
- 15 the Last Frontier
- 16 The Management of Terminal Illness
- 17 St. Christopher's Hospice
- 18 Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine
- 19 A Place to Die
- 20 Dimensions of Death
- 21 The Problem of Euthanasia (Care of the Dying—1)
- 22 Appropriate Treatment, Appropriate Death
- 23 The Philosophy of Terminal Care
- 24 Templeton Prize Speech
- 25 Current Views on Pain Relief and Terminal Care
- 26 Heroin and Morphine In Advanced Cancer
- 27 Pain and Impending Death
- 28 On Dying Well
- 29 Evaluation of Hospice Activities
- 30 The Modern Hospice
- 31 Foreword (<i>Pain: an Exploration</i>)
- 32 Spiritual Pain
- 33 Hospice—a Meeting Place for Religion and Science
- 34 Letter (On Alfred Worcester)
- 35 Voluntary Euthanasia
- 36 Foreword (<i>Mortally Wounded:Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing</i>)
- 37 Why I Welcome TV Cameras at the Death Bed
- 38 Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective)
- 39 Origins: International Perspectives, Then and Now
- 40 the Evolution of Palliative Care
- 41 A Voice for the Voiceless
- 42 The Evolution of Palliative Care
- 43 Foreword (Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine)
- 44 Introduction (<i>Management of Advanced Disease</i>)
- Index
Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine
Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine
First published in Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology, vol. 5 (1970), pp. 72–8.
- Chapter:
- (p.119) 18 Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine
- Source:
- Cicely Saunders
- Author(s):
Cicely Saunders
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
By 1970, it was commonly acknowledged that the predominant tendency in clinical gerontology was an orientation to the elderly person's potential for living — a more positive view of ageing. This paper by Cicely Saunders is unusual in focusing on thoughts of dying, what she describes as ‘the more neglected field’. It argues that students of gerontology need to learn that the patient must be seen as part of a total situation, and not merely as a case. Their learning can be enhanced by in-depth studies of individual patients, drawing also on the knowledge of the social worker and the sociologist. She suggests that the recognition of the imminence of death may prove just as difficult in the geriatric unit as on the general ward, in a situation where the concept of ‘the good death’ gets ignored.
Keywords: clinical gerontology, ageing, good death, potential for living, social work
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- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Dying of Cancer
- 2 Should a Patient Know … ?
- 3 When a Patient is Dying
- 4 The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage
- 5 And From Sudden Death…
- 6 A Patient
- 7 the Care of the Dying
- 8 Terminal Illness
- 9 Working at St. Joseph's Hospice Hackney
- 10 The Treatment of Intractable Pain In Terminal Cancer
- 11 Distress in Dying
- 12 The Depths and the Possible Heights
- 13 The Need for Institutional Care for the Patient with Advanced Cancer
- 14 the Last Stages of Life
- 15 the Last Frontier
- 16 The Management of Terminal Illness
- 17 St. Christopher's Hospice
- 18 Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine
- 19 A Place to Die
- 20 Dimensions of Death
- 21 The Problem of Euthanasia (Care of the Dying—1)
- 22 Appropriate Treatment, Appropriate Death
- 23 The Philosophy of Terminal Care
- 24 Templeton Prize Speech
- 25 Current Views on Pain Relief and Terminal Care
- 26 Heroin and Morphine In Advanced Cancer
- 27 Pain and Impending Death
- 28 On Dying Well
- 29 Evaluation of Hospice Activities
- 30 The Modern Hospice
- 31 Foreword (<i>Pain: an Exploration</i>)
- 32 Spiritual Pain
- 33 Hospice—a Meeting Place for Religion and Science
- 34 Letter (On Alfred Worcester)
- 35 Voluntary Euthanasia
- 36 Foreword (<i>Mortally Wounded:Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing</i>)
- 37 Why I Welcome TV Cameras at the Death Bed
- 38 Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective)
- 39 Origins: International Perspectives, Then and Now
- 40 the Evolution of Palliative Care
- 41 A Voice for the Voiceless
- 42 The Evolution of Palliative Care
- 43 Foreword (Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine)
- 44 Introduction (<i>Management of Advanced Disease</i>)
- Index
