The death of a child is a special sorrow. No matter the circumstances, a child's death is a life-
altering experience. Except for the child who dies suddenly and without forewarning …

Caring for a dying relative is demanding, and family caregivers have acknowledged many
unmet needs associated with their caregiver role. Consistently, caregivers of dying patients …

This book is a resource that can stand on its own as a primary text for undergraduate and
graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement, and can be used to good effect as a …

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the
experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period …

We live amid increasing ethical plurality and fragmentation while at the same time more and
more questions of moral gravity confront us. Some of these questions are new, such as …

Objectives:(1) To determine informal caregivers perceptions about place of care and place
of death; and (2) to identify variables associated with a home death among terminally ill …

The idea of a philosophy of palliative care emerged with Cicely Saunders' vision for'a good
death', and was developed further with the WHO definition of palliative care. It is now being …

Nursing older dying patients: findings from an ethnographic study of death and dying in
elderly care wards Background and aim. The aim of the study was to explore the …

Partiendo de una reflexión sobre los significados divergentes que se atribuyen hoy al
llamado" derecho a morir con dignidad", el trabajo analiza la respuesta que ofrece la …

Aim. This paper reports a study exploring district nurses' experiences of providing palliative
care for patients with cancer and their families. Background. There is an increasing demand …