Background Older people, living in nursing homes, are exposed to diverse situations, which
may be associated with loss of dignity. To help them maintain their dignity, it is important to …

Aims and objectives. To explore nursing home staff members' experiences of what dignity in
end of life care means to older people and to themselves. Background. Dignity is a concept …

Aim To gain insight in the way nursing home residents experience personal dignity and the
factors that preserve or undermine it. Background Nursing home residents are exposed to …

The discussion of a palliative care and a dignified death has almost exclusively been
applied to people dying of cancer. As people are getting older and are living longer, nursing …

Background: most older people living in nursing homes die there. An empirically based
model of dignity has been developed, which forms the basis of a brief psychotherapy to help …

Abstract Background Nursing homes (NHs) are populated by the frailest older people who
have multiple physical or mental conditions and palliative care needs that may convey the …

Background Maintaining dignity is an important element of end-of-life care and also of the
care given in nursing homes. Factors influencing personal dignity have been studied from …

Background: human dignity is discussed in almost all public debates on the care of the
dying, as well as in international policies for health and social care of older people. Because …

Dignified care is a central issue in the nursing care of older adults. Nurses are expected to
treat older adults with dignity, and older adults wish to be treated in a dignified manner …

Background Most nursing home residents spend the remainder of their life, until death,
within a nursing home. As preserving dignity is an important aim of the care given here …