Socio-cultural contexts of end- of- life conversations and decisions: bereaved family cancer caregivers’ retrospective co-constructions

Socio-cultural contexts of end- of- life conversations and decisions: bereaved family cancer caregivers’ retrospective co-constructions

Abstract Background End-of-life communication becomes increasingly difficult in terminal cancer, which inevitably entails conversations around dying and death. In resource-limited areas, the context of end-of-life communication is usually home-based palliative care comprising mostly women in the fam...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Nyawira Githaiga, Leslie Swartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
Subjects:
End-of-life
Communication
Palliative care
Family caregivers
Focus groups
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12904-017-0222-z

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