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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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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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 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7668-566-2 |