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Page Publishing Inc. Return of Compassion to Healthcare by Phd V Tellis-Nayak Rn Msn Tellis-Nayak
While advances in medical science and disease treatments are always welcome real transformation of healthcare requires us to focus on whole persons not just maladies.Our responsibilities to ill people and frail elders including those with dementia are not merely obligations but also responseabilities. Beyond relieving suffering and meeting their basic biological needs we can nurture each individual as a whole person and promote his or her wellbeing. The benefits are tangible and mutual. Helping professionals are rewarded through the deep and meaningful connections they form with the remarkable people they serve.In Return of Compassion to Healthcare the TellisNayaks offer blueprints for personcentered care that can guide leaders of healthcare aging services government and business in building enlightened clinical programs and assistedliving communities for medically ill and otherwise vulnerable people.As Vivian and Mary TellisNayak so clearly show solutions are available. Evidencebased treatments are valuable however the best care is also tender and loving.Ira Byock MD is founder and chief medical officer for the Institute for Human Caring Providence Health & Service. His books include Dying Well and The Best Care Possible.show more