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Modern hospice design : the architecture of palliative and social care / Ken Worpole.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024Edition: Second editionDescription: 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781032308135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 725.51 W.K.M
Contents:
A new world of palliative and social care -- A house at the end of life -- Be kind quickly: how the modern hospice movement changed (nearly) everything -- The brief is everything -- Public faces and private places -- Everything gathered in one room -- Open to the world and to life -- In a hospice garden -- The evening land.
Summary: The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care. Rooted in the social history of caring for the elderly and terminally ill, it explores architecture and design of hospices in relation to evolving philosophies of palliative and social care."—Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new world of palliative and social care -- A house at the end of life -- Be kind quickly: how the modern hospice movement changed (nearly) everything -- The brief is everything -- Public faces and private places -- Everything gathered in one room -- Open to the world and to life -- In a hospice garden -- The evening land.

The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care. Rooted in the social history of caring for the elderly and terminally ill, it explores architecture and design of hospices in relation to evolving philosophies of palliative and social care."—Provided by publisher.

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