Despite increased focus on the role of spiritual care in palliative care, there is limited
knowledge about spirituality/religiosity among dying patients in secularized cultures such as …

Purpose Spirituality is one of the main aspects of palliative care. The concept is
multidimensional and encompasses the existential realm as well as value-based and …

Abundant literature has argued the significance of religion, belief, and spirituality at the end
of life. This study aims to add to this literature by exploring palliative professionals' views in …

The aim of this paper is to gain some understanding of euthanasia as a Dutch cultural
practice, focusing on value orientations that lie beneath the surface of what is made visible …

Background: In Denmark and internationally, there has been an increased focus on
strengthening palliative care by enhancing spiritual care. Dying patients, however, do not …

One of the assumptions that underpins the literature on spirituality is the belief that facing a
terminal illness is a life crisis that intensifies the search for meaning, leaving individuals …

From its inception palliative care has been understood as addressing four dimensions:
physical, social, emotional/psychological, and spiritual/religious. However, the spiritual …

Hope is an important topic in spiritual care in palliative care but the experiences of chaplains
with hope have hardly been explored. The objective of this study was to explore Dutch …

Objective: With spirituality being one of the most important components of end-of-life (EOL)
care, this study explored the oral responses of 44 dying persons who expressed spirituality …

This study used a phenomenological approach, founded on the Husserlian tradition, to
discover the spiritual essence of palliative care in the lived experience of stakeholders …