A Dignified Death and Identity-Promoting Care

Dignity in Care for Older People

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 146-167

  Ternestedt, Britt Marie ^a  

^a Ersta Skondal University College   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Being allowed to be the person one is and to decide for oneself; Death understood in relation to contemporary societal values; Death as medical events and modern death; Dignified death and identity promoting care; Dignified or good death; dignity of identity and maintained self image; Meaningful life and dignified death; Modern hospice movement by Dame Cicely Saunders impact on care in final phase of life; Practical performance of nursing care and nursing science; Threats to identity close to death

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867729965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316414.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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