Thérèse Brady Library News
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Welcome back
After an extended Summer break the Library newsletter is back with updates on
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Library news
developments in the Thérèse Brady Library and reviews of research articles published over
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Conference dates
the last few months. Welcome to all new students and external library members who have
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Resource updates
come on board since the Summer.
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Article overview
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DVD Review
Library classes
New titles list Click to view new titles
Monthly library training sessions for staff will resume again on Monday October 25th between 23 with a session on ‘Using the internet for research’. This class will cover how to do indepth google searches, using google alerting, other search engines and evaluating online information. Anyone interested in attending this session, please contact laura.rooneyferris@hospicefoundation.ie Training sessions on searching the library’s two new databases CINAHL & Psychology & behavioral science collection will also begin in mid October – more details on page 2.
Up coming conferences and dates •
Oct 15th – Working with children who are dealing with illness. Northern Ireland Hospice Belfast
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Nov 5/6th National symposium for the arts in Endoflife care – St Christophers Hospice, London
preferences. Hilton Hotel Dublin
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Resource Updates CINAHL & Psychology & Behavioral Science collection
Following successful trials earlier this year the library now has permanent subscriptions to CINAHL & Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection (PBSC). These databases provide full text access to thousands of leading medical, allied health, psychology and behavioral science titles. Resource news, trials and updates
Access in the IHF offices is automatic via IP recognition and a username and password for remote access is available to all IHF staff and current students. If you would like to learn how to use some of the advanced features of these databases to set up personalized searches and alerts Lunchtime training sessions on using CINAHL & PBSC will begin on Friday October 22nd with a session in the library. Contact laura.rooneyferris@hospice foundation.ie if you would like to attend as space is limited.
Library Collection – more than bereavement & palliative care Thought the Thérèse Brady Library was just stocked with bereavement and palliative care books?.. not entirely. A core of new titles covering management theory, organizational behaviour, workplace change and learning styles are now available. These titles are intended as a support resource for anyone engaged in practice based learning, workplace projects and professional development or further education Some of the recent additions include… • The Gods of management by Charles Handy 658 HAN • Understanding voluntary organizations By Charles Handy 658.048 HAN • The heart of change ; real life stories of how people change their organisations by John Kotter & Dan Cohen 658.4 KOT • The Learning styles questionnaire by Peter Honey 331.1 HON • Know me, like me follow me; what online social networking means for you & your business by Penny Power & Thomas Power 658.869 POW Keep an eye on the ‘recommended books’ display in the library for more titles of general interest. View all recent acquisitions HERE
Happy Twitterversary @IrishHospice! October 1st marked the Irish Hospice Foundation’s 1st Twitterersary; in laymans terms, we’ve been on Twitter for one year. With a little push from a few new high profile followers and some very positive messages of support from tweeters the Irish Hospice twitter following has surged upward recently. A big thank you to everyone who has followed us through the first year, get ready for even more twitter activity! 2
Bereavememt Place of death impacts not only the state of mind of
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terminally ill patients, but can also determine the grief response in bereaved relatives. A study
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published in the September 13th issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology titled ‘Place of death; corelations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers mental health’ found that 21% of caregivers/relatives of patients who died in a hospital intensive care unit developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and display signs of prolonged grief disorder six months or more following the loss. The ongoing debate about the relationship between grief and depression and the controversial removal of the ‘bereavement exclusion’ in the new version of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is addressed in Good Grief a New York times article from August 14 which raises concerns that the removal of the bereavement exclusion could result in bereaved people being diagnosed with depression. The article echoes the
An article published in the August volume of the New England Journal of Medicine presented some extremely positive findings for advocates of palliative care for terminal patients. The article ‘ Early palliative care for patients with metastatic non–smallcell lung cancer’ by Temel et al presents findings of a study of early palliative care intervention with lung cancer patients which indicates a correlation between early palliative care and an increase in life expectancy of almost three months in addition to improved quality of life. While having access to palliative or hospice care may prolong life, research published in the October issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology indicates that withdrawl from hospice can increase overall treatment costs for terminal cancer patients. Results of the study of patients who died from cancer between 1998 and 2002 found that those who left hospice or palliative care were more likely to have recurring hospitalisations and were more likely to be admitted for emergency treatment.
Reviews An overview of selected articles and publications in bereavement palliative care, hospice and end of life care research
EndofLife Issues
All featured
nd sentiments of THIS August 2 article which argues
In ‘Decisions at the end of life; have we come of age’ articles are
the differences between normal grief and depression.
a new article in the current issue of BMC Medicine
available on request from the
researchers set out to illustrate the difficulty of
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making endoflife decisions for others. The authors For regular updates on research & resources of interest subscribe to the library blog
advise that endoflife decision making is made more complex by the culture of death denial and the conclusions advise the potential for advance care directives and interventions like Dignity Therapy to facilitate conversations on decision making between patients, family members and healthcare professionals.
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DVD Review *‘A Single Man’
Palliative care for all
National
The September edition of Forum the magazine of the Irish College of General Practitioners spotlighted the growing acceptance among GPs of the benefits of
Based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel ‘A Single Man’ is
palliative care for patients with conditions like e
directed by Tom Ford. The ‘single man’ of the title is George
dementia, heart failure and respiratory disease. The
Falconer (Played by Colin Firth), a reticent English professor
feature highlighted the Irish Hospice Foundation’s on
living in LA in 1962. The film follows him through one day, eight
going action research project examining the integration
months after the death of his long term partner Jim in a car crash.
of palliative care into the management of end stage
George is isolated in his grief, embracing the past, which is
dementia, respiratory disease and heart failure patients.
represented in vivid flashbacks of his life with Jim. From the
A video on this project can be downloaded HERE.
opening sequence it is clear that he is drowning in his loss and
The October issue of Archives of internal medicine
increasingly drifting away from the reality of life around him.
presents a study of end of life care for heart failure
The alienation of his bereavement experience is further
patients between 2000 and 2007. Findings indicated a
compounded by the fact he cannot publicly acknowledge, nor can
19% increase in hospice use by heart failure patients
those around him validate his loss. He hears of Jim’s death in a
however repeated hospitalisations in the last six months
brief phone call from a relative, during which he is also advised
of life among the study cohort resulted in an 11%
against attending the funeral which is ‘for family only’. Even his
increase in healthcare costs overall. Potential for
close friend and fellow expat Charley (Julianne Moore) diminishes
earlier hospice and palliative care intervention to lower
his pain, insinuating that the break up of her marriage is a deeper
costs for heart failure patients is indicated.
loss than the death of a same sex partner. Ford’s roots as a fashion designer seep into the fabric of this film and it oozes style, possibly to such an extent you could be forgiven
for thinking you are watching an animated Vogue cover shoot on grief. Though it is highly stylised it is never overtly glossy and the almost lurid beauty of the visuals add to the tone of detachment. Colin Firth’s performance is a perfectly pitched portrayal of the subtle nuances of bearing grief privately.
Compiled by; Laura Rooney Ferris Information & Library Manager Thérèse Brady Library
*A Single Man is available from the library
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