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Dying matters awareness week: refocusing on sensitivities of dying

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2013
202 British Journal of Community Nursing Vol 18, No 4 After the publication of the End-of-Life care (EoL) strategy, the Dying Matters Coalition emerged to help people talk about their own death and dying. One of the strategies was to dedicate a week in May as an awareness period, through which it is hoped people may find ways of discussing their own ...
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Dying of awareness: the theory of awareness contexts revisited

Sociology of Health & Illness, 1994
AbstractIn this paper, I employ a grounded theory approach to extend an existing theory. My starting point is the theory of awareness contexts, first formulated in 1965 by Strauss and Glaser. Using introspective ethnography, I illustrate that the way patients and relatives emotionally cope with terminal information defines the kind of awareness context.
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Existential Crisis and the Awareness of Dying: The Role of Meaning and Spirituality

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2010
An existential crisis may occur in cancer patients when they realize that their death may be imminent. We explore the ways in which patients deal with this crisis, in which the meaning of life itself is at stake. In dealing with an existential crisis, it is important to have the courage to confront the loss of meaning and security.
Yang, W., Staps, T., Hijmans, E.J.S.
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Revisiting ‘awareness contexts’ in the 21st century hospital: How fragmented and specialized care shape patients' Awareness of Dying

Social Science & Medicine, 2019
In 1965, Glaser and Strauss (1965) offered the concept of "awareness contexts" to explain what patients in hospitals do or don't know about their death trajectories. Awareness ranges from closed (where patients are completely unaware and family and providers protect "the secret") to open (where all parties communicate openly and honestly). While closed
Clare L, Stacey, Manacy, Pai, Meghan A, Novisky, Steven M, Radwany   +3 more
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Sharing or withholding awareness of dying between husband and wife

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1981
Abstract Of 80 patients in the later stages of progressive cancer 62 had spoken of the possibility of dying to either their spouse, the ward staff or the interviewer. Of the 62 couples, 35% had openly shared their awareness that the patient could be dying, and some of the exchanges between husband and wife are noted.
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Awareness of Dying: An Experience of Chinese Patients with Terminal Cancer

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2001
Despite the effort to provide an alternate way to dying, there seems to be little effort to examine the real situation of hospice care. For example, the patients' desired outcomes are seldom addressed. It is recently that studies began to investigate the features of “good death.” However, work in eastern cultures, such as Chinese, remains scarce.
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Awareness and control of dying

1998
Everyday social life is permeated by the moment-to-moment construction and negotiation of memberships as conversation analysts have shown. The roots of the desire for membership which, I argued in chapter 1, are hardly analysed in social theory, lie in the fundamental fact of human embodiment.
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Families' awareness of and response to dying.

Oncology nursing forum, 1999
To explore how family care-givers develop and respond to an awareness that their relative is dying.Qualitative, interpretive.Four major providers of cancer services in Brisbane, Australia, including a hospital, hospice, homecare nursing service, and oncologist's office.20 recently bereaved adult family caregivers (mean age = 48.5): 11 females, 9 males--
Yates, Patsy, Stetz, Kathleen
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A Figurational Approach: Views of Communication and Awareness of Death and Dying in Ireland

Irish Journal of Sociology, 2009
Open awareness and communication in death and dying have become important aspects in caring for people who are terminally ill. This change began in the 1960s and has been driven by social and ideological factors, especially in highly individualistic societies such as the US and the UK.
Una Macconville, Regina McQuillan
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Awareness of Dying. Oder: Die Grounded Theory Methodologie

2017
Mit dem letzten in diesem Buch vorzustellenden ‚Meilenstein‘ kehren wir nun zuruck in die USA. In Kapitel 1.3 haben Sie ja bereits erfahren, dass die Etablierung und Ausdifferenzierung qualitativer Sozialforschung dort mit den Studien der Chicago School ihren Anfang genommen hatte.
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