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People With Advanced Cancer: The Process of Living Well With Awareness of Dying. [PDF]

Qual Health Res, 2020
Literature suggests that it is possible to live well with advanced cancer but little is known about the process. In this article, we present a secondary analysis of experiences of living with advanced cancer ( n = 22) that refines the theory of “Living Well with Chronic Illness” for a different context and population.
Arantzamendi M, García-Rueda N, Carvajal A, Robinson CA.   +3 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

Awareness of dying: it needs words. [PDF]

Support Care Cancer, 2012
The purpose of this research is to study to what extent dying patients are aware of the imminence of death, whether such awareness is associated with patient characteristics, symptoms and acceptance of dying, and whether medical records and nurses' and family caregivers' views on patients' awareness of dying agree.Nurses and family caregivers of 475 ...
Lokker ME, van Zuylen L, Veerbeek L, van der Rijt CC, van der Heide A.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Critical Care Nurses' Attitude Towards Caring for Dying Patients and Its Relationship With Authenticity in Southeastern Iran: A Descriptive Correlational Study [PDF]

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims End‐of‐life care in the ICU is essential to relieve suffering and maintain patient dignity during the final stages of life. The attitudes of critical care nurses toward caring for dying patients significantly influence the quality of ...
Alireza Alizadeh, Maryam Heidarinejad, Asma Hajalizadeh, Farideh Razban   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Awareness of Dying Preface

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2015
Recently The New York Times reported: “VERY ILL CHILDREN TOLD OF DISEASE; Leukemia Patients at N.I.H. Not Shielded From Truth. . . . A child should always be told the truth, even when he has an incurable disease such as leukemia, according to two ...
Barney G. Glaser, PhD, Hon. PhD, Anselm L. Strauss   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

First Experiences with Last Aid Courses as Tool for Public Palliative Care Education in Brazil [PDF]

Nursing Reports
Background/Objectives: Promoting access to palliative care education at all levels and in diverse contexts is essential. In Brazil, however, despite progress, awareness remains limited.
Karin Schmid, Patricia Maluf Cury, Marina Schmidt, Georg Bollig, Janaina Santos Nascimento   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Awareness of Dying Remains Relevant after Fifty Years

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2015
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Awareness of Dying, one of four monographs that culminated from a six-year funded research program titled Hospital Personnel, Nursing Care and Dying Patients (Glaser, 1968).
Tom Andrews, Alvita K. Nathaniel
doaj   +3 more sources

This text is a reprint of the Preface of Awareness of Dying (1965)

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2015
Recently The New York Times reported: "VERY ILL CHILDREN TOLD OF DISEASE; Leukemia Patients at N.I.H. Not Shielded From Truth. . . . A child should always be told the truth, even when he has an incurable disease such as leukemia, according to two ...
Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss
doaj   +1 more source

Coping with death and awareness of mortality in patients and their relatives [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2020
The aim of our study was to analyze the attitudes of people – patients and their relatives in proximity of death and dying. End-stage of human life is often associated with changes in the scale of values and needs of the individual.
Littva Vladimir, Kralova Anna
doaj   +1 more source

Dying in the Margins: A Literature Review on End of Life in English Prisons

Religions, 2021
This paper explores dying in English prisons. Whilst often conflated, death and dying are conceptually different. While there is increased attention given to the investigation of deaths in custody, and the impact of prison deaths on healthcare staff and ...
Renske Claasje Visser
doaj   +1 more source

The Practical Use of Awareness Theory

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2021
In this chapter we shall discuss how our substantive sociological theory has been developed in order to facilitate applying it in daily situations of terminal care by sociologists, by doctors and nurses, and by family members and dying patients.
Barney G. Glaser
doaj   +2 more sources