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Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 2004
Stimulated by Downs(2003) article on Failure in Palliative Care the author reflects on the workings of a day hospice focusing on the difficult and challenging issues for patients and how the hospice setting can enable these issues to be raised and addressed. The issues are explored and illustrated using patient comments and experiences. Acknowledging a
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Stimulated by Downs(2003) article on Failure in Palliative Care the author reflects on the workings of a day hospice focusing on the difficult and challenging issues for patients and how the hospice setting can enable these issues to be raised and addressed. The issues are explored and illustrated using patient comments and experiences. Acknowledging a
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Patients’ perceptions of hospice day care: a phenomenological study
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2001This study explored the perceptions of 12 patients attending a day care unit in June/July 1996, with the purpose of finding out what was important to these people about their day care experiences. It used a phenomenological methodology derived from Paterson and Zderad's Humanistic Nursing Theory.
Hopkinson, J.B., Hallett, C.E.
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The experiences of patients undergoing blood transfusion in a day hospice
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2013AimTo explore patients' views on living with anaemia and undergoing blood transfusions in a day hospice.MethodsThis was a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Ten patients who between them had received 90 transfusions were purposively sampled from the hospice day unit. The interviews were digitially recorded, transcribed anonymously, and
Jacquie, Orme +4 more
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Community day care at hospice Africa Uganda
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2012IntroductionPalliative care is an approach that improves quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life threatening illness, through prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and careful assessment and treatment of pain and other problems (WHO Geneva 2004) In Uganda, at Hospice Africa ...
Lisa Christine Irumba, Octivia Evelyn
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P-10 Photo making in hospice: Exploring the portraiture experience of day hospice patients
The Art and Science of Hospice Care – Poster Presentations, 2015Research aim Exploring whether taking part in photographic portraiture helps to restore the transformed self-image often associated with the diagnosis of a life-shortening condition. Background/literature review There is increasing interest in the use of therapeutic photography, yet no study has documented the experiences of hospice users when ...
Amabel Mortimer +3 more
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Assessing the Need for and Potential Role of a Day Hospice: A Qualitative Study
Journal of Palliative Care, 2000We conducted a qualitative case study as part of a needs assessment for a day hospice in a small Ontario city. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews with 28 stakeholders: nine health care administrators, 11 health care providers, and eight lay people (terminally ill adults and informal caregivers).
Lohfeld, L H +4 more
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Griefwork with children - Workshop Days at Pilgrims Hospice in Canterbury
Palliative Medicine, 1992Discussions at Pilgrims Hospice about the needs of bereaved children grieving the loss of a parent or grandparent led to a search to discover what others were doing in this field. Little appeared to have been published. We determined to tackle this problem by using a multidisciplinary approach and focusing upon the skills of the art therapist and ...
Alan G Burroughs +3 more
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Interprofessional working in hospice day care and the patients’ experience of the service
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2002This in-depth study of hospice day care considers professional team working and patient experience of the service. It includes an analysis of how patients’ time is spent. The qualitative single case study design involved patient and staff interviews, observations and document analysis.
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The American journal of hospice care, 1990
Hospice day care would have to be flexible in order to meet individual needs. It would offer security, warmth and tender loving care, providing an opportunity for patients to socialize and maintain their quality of life. Hopefully day care would provide earlier hospice admissions--extending the continuity of care.
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Hospice day care would have to be flexible in order to meet individual needs. It would offer security, warmth and tender loving care, providing an opportunity for patients to socialize and maintain their quality of life. Hopefully day care would provide earlier hospice admissions--extending the continuity of care.
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