Good death
Perceptions of a Good Death in Children with Life Shortening Conditions:An Integrative Review
... child dying of cancer as “the final social process which involves many perspectives and is the sum of the interactions of multiple dimensions and their influences”. The work of Hendrickson and McCorkle postulated that ...
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Life at the end of life: beliefs about individual life after death and "good death" models - a qualitative study
... of death towards life ...regret, death itself, and the replacement of old metaphys- ical certainties with new relativity and doubt, of eternity with finiteness of time, are not counterbalanced with ...
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Can a "good death" be made better?: A preliminary evaluation of a patient-centred quality improvement strategy for severely ill in-patients
... Implicit in the question, "What is a good death?" is the question of how to make deaths better. Prior studies of quality improvement in end-of-life care have focused on specific outcomes deemed to ...
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Defining a good death for residents in long-term care
... In light of the myriad of daily tasks performed by the LTC social worker and limited training of some LTC social workers, it is understandable, although not acceptable, that social workers were noticeably absent from ...
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End of life care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: in search of a good death
... There is good evidence that patients benefi t from advance care planning. In COPD patients, advance care planning increases patient satisfaction and sense of control, and reduces fear, anxiety and emotional ...
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Dying with Meaning: Social Identity and Cultural Scripts for a Good Death in Spain
... a good death it is important that the process be conducted by the par- ticipants themselves without the moderator guiding the out- ...a good death mean to you?” The discussions were ...
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Reappraising ‘the good death’ for populations in the age of ageing
... impending death. The ‘good death’ also places considerable responsibility for the quality of dying on the individual and, by extension, creates the morally loaded categories of ‘good’ and ...
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A Good Death?
... ‘a good death’ which has been a theme in the writing of philosophers since classical ...and death remain terrifyingly painful and ...father’s death, and a moment of fleeting, painful but ...
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Thai medical students’ attitudes regarding what constitutes a “good death”: a multi-center study
... of death is another important concern for terminally ill patients, and there have been a number of reports regarding discrepancy of opinion on this issue between the patient and their family or the patient and ...
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The influence of place of death and rural residency on the 'good death'
... ‘good death’– physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and ...‘good death’ is one that is peaceful, free of pain and without ...‘good death’ parallel the urban view, and include a ...
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Is a good death possible in Australian critical and acute settings?: physician experiences with end-of-life care
... a good place to…die, it’s noisy and busy, there’s…minimal privacy…there’s really no room for rela- tives to sit down and have some time by ...discuss death and dying…it’s time consuming…they’re not ...
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The relevance of the “death desired” as visualised in fifteenth century Books of Hours to the “good death” of contemporary palliative care
... performed together the next morning, is when there appears to be a simultaneous performance of the Office and the Requiem Mass. Matins and Lauds were commonly performed before this Mass. There is a greater similarity in ...
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A good death - Research on dying is scanty
... for death when such events are actually faced?) This prompts further consideration that advance preferences or directives may not conform with those when crisis is at ...
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Simple Life Review for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients with Low Cognitive Function
... The efficacy for Good Death is consistent with pre- vious studies [10,14-16]. The decreased Distress and Im- pact scores in all patients except Patient 04 suggest that the Simple Life Review may be ...
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Unpacking the impact of older adults' home death on family care givers' experiences of home
... home death focuses on why family carers opt to support a home death and how home-based care can contribute to ‘the good death’, but there is little work that seeks to understand how family ...
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Suicide in Igbo-African Ontology
... between good and bad ...At death such a person joins the ancestors, though after the full funeral rites that ushers the person into the world of the ...ancestors. Death at an old age is regarded as a ...
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Preparing Christians to Die Faithfully By Living Well
... a good death, or they do not embody spiritual practices that help people face the psychosocial and spiritual difficulties of ...to good habits and character ...a good and faithful ...of ...
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Terminal Sedation – Good Medicine? Good Ethics? Good Law?
... It may, of course, be asked whether or not a patient may be so incapacitated by their suffering as to make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to make a valid decision. In such cases, proxy decision-makers may be ...
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Moral reasoning, death and the clinic: the ethics of end-of-life decisions
... until Death, has changed in its description in medical journals over the ...in death, are simply acts which allow someone to ...of death, but rather the disease (Beauchamp, 2004: ...
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Doing Good is Good Business
... The private sector does participate, in some form or the other, along with Government agencies, when it comes to fulfilling the basic needs of healthcare, education, infrastructure, water & power and housing in urban ...
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