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Blogging to Let Go: Life Writing, Maternal Cancer and Death

open access: yesOn_Culture, 2021
Illness memoirs gained popularity in the last decades of the 20th century. From the early 21st century, illness narratives proliferate online.
Astrid Joutseno
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‘The beauty and the less beautiful’: exploring the meanings of dying at ‘home’ among community and practitioner representatives and advocates across Canada

open access: yesPalliative Care and Social Practice, 2023
Background: Significant structural and normative pressures privilege the ideal of dying at home in Canada. At the same time, the social complexities and meanings associated with dying in particular locations remain critically unexamined.
Laura Funk   +6 more
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Does Death Anxiety Affect Nurses’ Attitudes Toward the Care of a Dying Patient? A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesNeuropsychiatric Investigation, 2021
Objective: In this study, we aimed to determine whether the death anxiety of nurses has an influence on the attitudes toward caring for dying patients. Methods: The study was carried at the University Hospital.
Merve Şahin, Fatma Demirkıran
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Association of socioeconomic status with medical assistance in dying: a case–control analysis

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2021
Objectives Economic constraints are a common explanation of why patients with low socioeconomic status tend to experience less access to medical care. We tested whether the decreased care extends to medical assistance in dying in a healthcare system with
Deva Thiruchelvam   +3 more
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The “A Graceful Death Exhibition”: Portraits and Words from the End of Life

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2015
This article discusses the lack of knowledge and awareness that hampers end of life experiences, for both the dying and those left behind. It draws on personal experiences, and explores working creatively with dying people, using observations, painting ...
Antonia Rolls
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Nurses' knowledge, attitudes and practices towards palliative care provided to patients diagnosed with cancer.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Aim and objectivesThis study aimed to explore the levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward palliative care (PC) among nurses working with patients diagnosed with cancer in Jordan.BackgroundPC is a growing specialty in healthcare and nursing ...
Walaa Mohammed Altarawneh   +4 more
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Angoisse : genèse d’un récit

open access: yesTracés, 2020
Anguish: The Case History of a Dying Trajectory (1970) is an exemplification of the grounded theory approach already developed by the sociologists Anselm Strauss and Barney Glaser in Awareness of Dying (1965) and Time for Dying (1968).
Anthony Stavrianakis, Laurence Tessier
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The Last Song

open access: yesVoices, 2010
Through my work as a hospice music therapist I’ve come to believe that people who are dying have an inner awareness of their own impending deaths.  When I was a music therapy intern, I met a patient who was the first to reveal to me this inner awareness ...
Yumiko Sato
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Investigating the effect of inquiry-based stress reduction on mortality awareness and interpersonal problems among intensive care unit nurses

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Caring for dying patients is one of the job stressors. Nurses in intensive care units are among the medical staff who have a close interaction with dying patients.
Soheila Tajnia   +3 more
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Attitudes and Associated Factors towards Care for Dying Patients among Non-Palliative Care Nurses, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

open access: yesIJNP (Indonesian Journal of Nursing Practices), 2021
Background: The increment of terminal health problems causes the demand for palliative care to increase. Nurses’ attitudes toward palliative care have critical implications on the quality of care for terminally ill patients.
Titih Huriah   +2 more
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