Dignity in the end of life care : what does it mean to older people and staff in nursing homes?

  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 homes have become an important place for end-of-life care and death. Dignity is a concept often used in health care do...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dwyer, Lise-Lotte
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Ersta Sköndal högskola, Enheten för forskning om vård i livets slutskede 2008
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-596
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