Good Death and Quality of End-of-Life Care in Patients with Coexisting Cancer and Dementia: Perspective of Bereaved Families [PDF]
Palliative Medicine ReportsBackground: Patients with coexisting cancer and dementia often have complex health care needs and face challenges in achieving a good death. Objectives: To evaluate good death achievement and end-of-life (EOL) care in patients with coexisting cancer and ...
Ayumi Takao +10 more
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Perceptions of good death and attitudes toward dignified death and euthanasia among nursing students in Türkiye: a cross-sectional descriptive-correlational study [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Nursing students’ perceptions and attitudes towards death and end-of-life care are of critical importance for the quality of end-of-life care and the professional roles they will undertake in this regard in the future.
İpek Köse Tosunöz +1 more
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The ‘good death’ in Mainland China - A Scoping Review [PDF]
International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 2022 Background: Since the mid 80’ies, the western palliative care philosophy has influenced the development of palliative care in mainland China. However, it has caused several challenges.
Cong Fu, Stinne Glasdam
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Mediating effect of moral resilience between good-death perception and coping with death competence of ICU nurses: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground Moral resilience can help Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses overcome moral dilemmas caused by the death of patients, while enhancing their competence to cope with death.
Xiaoyun Zhou +7 more
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Investigation of the effect of nurses’ professional values on their perceptions of good death: a cross-sectional study in Türkiye [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground The care of patient individuals in the good death process should be planned based on nursing values. The aim of the study is to determine nurses’ perceptions of a good death and its relationship with nursing values.
Fatma Aksoy +2 more
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Defining a good death: Perspectives of patients, relatives, and health care professionals in the Catalan context-A qualitative study. [PDF]
PLoS ONEHealth systems often lack integrated, person-centered end-of-life care. Improving this care is a key priority for decision-makers in the Catalan context.
Vicky Serra-Sutton +4 more
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Nursing Ethics, 2013 In my experience, there has been a good deal of positive attention to death and dying recently. This contributes to the raising of awareness of philosophical, practical and aesthetic aspects. The Wellcome Collection in London, for example, hosted a special weekend event on the theme of ‘What makes a good death?’ The weekend event coincided with a ...
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Practices of Ritualization in a Dutch Hospice Setting
Religions, 2020 In this article, we explore rituals and ritualized care practices in a hospice in the Netherlands. The research is guided by two research questions. First, we want to know what kind of rituals and ritualized care practices are taking place in the hospice.
Kim van der Weegen +3 more
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Journal of Social Work Practice, 2016 This paper offers some personal reflections on the idea of ‘a good death’, a theme in the writing of philosophers since classical times. The hospice movement has made immense progress in creating conditions in which we can ‘die better’. But such experiences are still the exception rather than the rule.
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