Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals

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Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals is a comprehensive guide focusing on the care of pets with life-limiting conditions. It delves into the principles and practices of animal hospice and palliative care, offering insights into end-of-life decision-making, pain management, and emotional support for both animals and their owners. This book serves as a valuable resource for those seeking to provide compassionate care to their companion animals during challenging times.
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This book may appeal to you if you are passionate about providing compassionate end-of-life care for beloved pets or are a professional in the veterinary field. It offers valuable insights into the practical and emotional aspects of hospice and palliative care for companion animals, combining scientific knowledge with heartfelt guidance.

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Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals

A thoroughly updated and expanded new edition of the only book providing comprehensive treatment of hospice and palliative care in veterinary medicine.

Animals with life-limiting illnesses deserve compassionate, thoughtful, end-of-life care. Their caregivers and families, faced with the loss of a beloved companion, deserve empathy, support, and education, to guide them through an emotionally wrenching period and provide their companion animals with the highest possible quality of life. In recent years, the ethics of care and service to sick and dying animals and their caregivers has been the subject of considerable attention.

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals, 2^nd Edition provides a thorough update to the first and only complete guide to this field of service, its foundations, and its applications. It addresses the needs of pets, caregivers, and veterinary professionals alike, including fundamental ethical and emotional principles as well as a detailed discussion of specific illnesses and life-limiting conditions. The expanded second edition incorporates cutting-edge research into animal behaviour and cognition to enrich the reader’s understanding of companion animals’ emotional needs and their experience of illness and death.

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals, 2^nd Edition readers will also find:

Existing chapters expanded to incorporate new research and practical experience
New chapters discussing factors underlying the decision to euthanise, the potential role of ethology in palliative care, and more
A companion website with educational handouts for use in veterinary practices

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals is an indispensable resource for caregivers and veterinary professionals alike.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119808787

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Amir Shanan
Edited by Jessica Pierce
Edited by Tamara Shearer

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 10.0mm

Height: 10.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 448

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About the Author

The editors

Amir Shanan, DVM, is the Founding President of the International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care and a Founding Partner of the Animal Hospice Group. He owns Compassionate Veterinary Hospice, a veterinary practice dedicated to end-of-life care, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Jessica Pierce, BA, MDiv, PhD, is a bioethicist and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Tamara Shearer, DVM, CCRP, CVPP, CVA, MSTCVM, owns Shearer Pet Health Services and Smoky Mountain Integrative Veterinary Clinic in Sylva, North Carolina, USA, and serves on the faculty of Chi University.