Learning from dying patients during their final days: Life reflections gleaned from dignity therapy

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 715-723

  Hack, Thomas F ^a   McClement, Susan E ^a   Chochinov, Harvey M ^a   Cann, Beverley J ^a   Hassard, Thomas H ^a   Kristjanson, Linda J ^b   Harlos, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dignity; dying; ill; palliative care; qualitative; terminally; therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CARE AND CARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYING; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; LEARNING; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONAL VALUE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONHOOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 77957760340     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216310373164     Document Type: Article

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