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Brown Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023 While medical advancements over the past century have enabled patients to live longer with serious illness, they have also prolonged the dying process while shifting the location of end-of-life care away from home and into acute care settings.
Tammy Yu
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Health Science Reports, 2023 Background and Aims By the 1960s, medicine experienced technological revolutions that enabled it to control and medicalize death in many circumstances.
Michal Coret +1 more
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2007 The Institute of Medicine defines a good death a “one that is free from avoidable death and suffering for patients, families and caregivers in general accordance with the patients’ and families’ wishes.”.
Gustafson, David H
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Palliative Medicine Reports, 2022 Background: Bathing in a tub is integral to Japanese culture. It improves palliative care patients' symptoms and may improve quality of life. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and impressions of bathing for terminally ill cancer ...
Eriko Hayashi +7 more
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“Good death” – the circumstances in which it would be best for a person to die. The representative survey of Latvian population [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 The paper analyses the opinions of Latvian residents about the desired/best conditions for person’s death. Our intention was to use the concept of “good death” as it has been described in academic literature on the end of life to describe what ...
Kalnina Diana, Skulte Ilva
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Contemporary ethical problem - Euthanasia
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019 Admission Cultural changes and more dynamic medical techniques result in a multitude of questions related to the bioethical aspects of medicine. In recent years, increased interest in the sphere of death.
Patrycja Ręba
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Euthanasia: The conceptualization of the problem and important distinctions [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2013 The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the intention is to provide analysis of the issue of euthanasia. On the other hand, this approach necessarily leads to a discussion toward the provision of an adequate definition of euthanasia ...
Đerić Milijana
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Animals, 2022 In dogs, several primary or secondary diseases affecting the ocular structures may cause blindness. In cases where the visual impairment is not associated with severe systemic involvement and the animal can still have, predictably, a good “long-term ...
Vito Biondi +4 more
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Existential Suffering in Palliative Care: An Existential Positive Psychology Perspective
Medicina, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacies of the current healthcare system and needs a paradigm change to one that is holistic and community based, illustrated by the healing wheel. The present paper proposes that existential positive psychology
Paul T. P. Wong, Timothy T. F. Yu
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Ars Moriendi. Ethical Challenges of the Ultimate Realities of Life
Ethics in Progress, 2022 The aim of this issue of Ethics in Progress is to provide a provisional, open-ended view on the ultimate realities of life and the ethical challenges they pose in medical, sociological, and existential contexts.
Sara Sgarlata +2 more
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