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Library news & updates

In this issue;

• Library news

• Resource &

trial updates

• Conference

dates

• Article

overview

• Book Review

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Thérèse Brady Library News

Vol 1 Is4 – May/June 2010

Summer break

Library Training sessions

As the academic year has ended and we enter the summer wind down,

the library’s monthly training sessions will be on hold until September.

If anyone would like to suggest areas for future library training pass them

on to laura.rooneyferris@hospice-foundation.ie

Currently on the agenda for the new semester’s library training classes

are sessions on database searching, using the internet for research and

alternative sources of information but additional suggestions are always

welcome.

Summer Loans – Students and library members wishing to have book

loans extended for the summer period should contact the library.

Library Summer Hours

The Therese Brady Library opening hours will remain largely unchanged

during the summer months (9.00 - 5.30 Monday to Friday). Late opening

on Wednesday’s (until 7 pm) will be suspended until October.

For up to date information on any holiday-related changes to library

opening hours keep an eye on the library blog.

You can subscribe to blog updates by email by clicking the ‘email

subscription’ button on the right side menu of the blog home page or you

can receive updates via RSS feed by clicking the ‘RSS feed – posts’ link

half way down the right side menu.

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Resource Updates

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Resource

news, trials

and updates

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Conferences and dates for July & August • July 15th – University of Glamorgan - What do we do with Death? Death, dying &

learning disabilities’

• July 20-21 - Warwick University – Cruse bereavement care annual conference

• Aug 24th -27th – Maynooth – EASA Conference - Includes the workshop ‘Death &

imagination; creative strategies to embrace and avoid the crisis of death’

CINAHL & Psychology & Behavioral Science collection

A reminder that the additional month of trial access to CINAHL & Psychology & Behvioral Science Collection via EBSCOhost ends on July 2nd. Please make sure to take advantage of the trial access while it is in place. Usage for CINAHL & PBSC during trial access has been very high so we hope to have full subscriptions to these databases in place for the new academic year ... watch this space.

Google Scholar – now with email alerts Google’s academic search function ‘google scholar’ recently introduced a new email alert function. Though the vast majority of academic databases have this function as does PubMed, Google Scholar alerts offer the opportunity to return results from sources not indexed in other academic databases, like patents and legal opinions. To set up a basic search simply enter your search terms into google scholar and hit search then click on the envelope icon and select ‘create alert’ to save your search as an alert. The best way to use the google scholar email alerts is to run your search in the ‘advanced scholar search’ mode. Here you can search by article title, by author, keyword etc. so updates for new articles which meet your search criteria will be emailed directly to you. Another useful feature is the ability to set up alerts for citations of specific articles. Go to the article you want to create the citation alert for in the search results, under the article title click on the ‘cited by…’ link and create the alert so each new citation of the article will be emailed to you. It is not possible to set up alerts for specific titles however most journals provide email or RSS table of content alerts which fulfill this function As always, do remember that google scholar is simply a web search engine, so unless a search result is from an open access publication or you are accessing it via a library e-journal or database, you will not necessarily have access to the full text of the item. If anyone would like more information or help with setting up alerts email laura.rooneyferris@hospice-foundation.ie

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Reviews

An overview

of selected

articles and

publications

in

bereavement

palliative

care, hospice

and end of

life care

research

-All

featured

articles are

available on

request

from the

Therese

Brady

Library

Article overviews Thérèse Brady Library News - Vol. 1 Is. 4 May/June 2010

Bereavememt

The special olympics took place in Limerick

between June 10th & 13th. The Irish

Hospice Foundation’s display featured

details of some of the Therese Brady

Library’s titles addressing bereavement in

people with intellectual disabilities. Two

recently acquired titles in this area are ‘Am

I going to die?’ by Sheila Hollins & Irene

Turrfey-Wijne and ‘When somebody dies’

by Sheila Hollins, Sandra Dowling and

Noelle Blackman. Both books are part of

the Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘Books

Beyond Words’ series which aims to make

communication about illness and death

easier for people with intellectual

disabilities or adults with literacy

problems. These titles are available to

borrow from the library. Other recent

additions to the library collection can be

browsed by clicking the ‘new titles’ list on

page 1.

The current volume of Omega; the journal

of death and dying (Vol 61 Is 2) features an

article by Mary Ann Clute entitled

‘Bereavement interventions for adults with

intellectual disabilities; what works’ which

outlines the increasing need to identify

best practice and successful interventions

for adults with intellectual disabilities.

For regular updates on research &

resources of interest subscribe to the

library blog

Palliative care & End-of-Life

With increasing debate regarding Palliative

sedation the US National Hospice &

Palliative Care Organisation released a new

Statement on palliative sedation on May

11th. The statement aims to alleviate

misunderstanding regarding palliative

sedation and assist hospice and healthcare

organisations in developing their own

position on palliative sedation.

In the UK, the General Medical Council

issued a new guidence on ‘Treatment and

care towards to end of life’. The guidence

which officially goes into effect on July 1st

replaces the 2002 guidelines on

Withholding and withdrawing life-

prolonging treatments and develops upon

guidance in Consent, patients and doctors

making decisions together,

End-of-Life Issues

The May 19th launch of the Hospice

Friendly Hospitals ‘National audit of end-of-

life care in hospitals’ and the ‘Quality

standards for end of life care in hospitals’

end of life practice and proceedure in Irish

hospitals has been put firmly on the

agenda.

Despite increased emphasis on end-of-life

care in the NHS, the May 11th Nursing

Times article ‘Last offices neglected in over

half hospital deaths’ indicated that a

lack of guidelines on last offices means

basic steps to ensure dignity and

respect following a death are often not

performed.

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National

Thérèse Brady Library News -Vol. 1 Is. 4 May/June 2010

Compiled by; Laura Rooney Ferris

Information & Library Manager

Thérèse Brady Library

Irish Hospice Foundation

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Book Review

‘So much for that’ By; Lionel Shriver (2010)

Fans of Lionel Shriver will be pleased to note her latest offering

does little to strip her of the angry (not so) young woman title

she’s been labelled with through novels like the Orange prize

winning ‘We need to talk about Kevin’

In ‘So much for that’ Shriver turns her attention to the US

healthcare industry and quite literally, the business of dying.

Shep Knacker, through a combination of frugality and the sale of

his successful handy man business has amassed an impressive

nest egg for a retirement he plans to enjoy on the remote

Tanzanian island of Pemba. His wife Glynis, never entirely keen

on what Shep refers to as ‘the afterlife’ resists the big move

leaving Shep to deliver an ultimatum; he’s going, with or without

her. However, Glynis’ revelation that she is suffering from

metastatic peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare cancer gives her

ample reason to decline the one way ticket, derailing Sheps get

away and over the next year obliterating his nest egg.

Drawing on personal experience (Shriver lost a close friend to

mesothelioma) she details the physical, emotional and in precise

detail the financial fall out from Glynis’ battle with cancer. Far

from a stoic victim, Glynis refuses to go gently into that good

night and there is probably more than a little of Shriver herself in

the character. To round out this critique of the price tagged

approach to US healthcare is Shep’s elderly father’s experience of

the nursing home system and Flicka, teenage daughter of Shep

and Glynis’ close friends who suffers from familial dysautonomia,

a condition which has ravaged her parent’s marriage and finances

as severely as it has her autonomic nervous system.

The dialogue can at times seem to be simply Shriver’s raging

against a broken system which following US healthcare reform is

at least being addressed.

Her characters succeed in climbing out from behind the agenda

though and ‘So much for that’ offers a brave and often moving

account of the effect of terminal illness on a marriage, the

renewed sense of spirit and the lengths to which we will go to in

the end to secure a good death for those we love.

‘So much for that’ is available to borrow from the Therese Brady Library

Palliative care for all

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The increasing importance of improved

end-of-life care for end stage dementia

patients was highlighted in Thune-Boyle

et al’s article ‘Challenges to improving

end-of-life care for people with advanced

dementia in the UK’ in Dementia . The

article indicates that with Dementia set to

rise palliative care pathways are

necessary to eliminate unnecessary and

often detrimental hospital admissions for

people with advanced dementia.

The new national cardiovascular health

policy launched on June 10th draws on

recommendations of the ‘Palliative care

for all’ report in recognising the need for

palliative care interventions for heart

failure patients and recommending

cardiac and stroke units have access to

specialist palliative care.