Home care nurses' provision of support to families of the elderly at the end of life.
Qual Health Res
; 21(2): 199-213, 2011 Feb.
Article
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| ID: mdl-20852015
ABSTRACT
In this article we describe our study of assistance for family decisions and caregiving by Japanese home care nurses to families of elderly relatives at the end of life. The participants were 31 nurses who had been evaluated as providing good end-of-life care. We carried out semistructured interviews concerning the practice of family support in two cases (cancer and noncancer). We conducted a qualitative analysis using the constant comparative approach and derived several categories inductively. Home care nurses are responsible for (a) estimating the possibility of dying at home, (b) visualizing what is coming and what can be done, (c) proposing where and how the family can say goodbye, (d) building family consensus, (e) coordinating resources, and (f) offering psychological support for end-of-life care. End-of-life family care by home care nurses is a process in which multiple components of care are provided with changing content as death approaches.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Cuidados Paliativos
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Cuidadores
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Enfermería de la Familia
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Toma de Decisiones
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Atención Domiciliaria de Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Qual Health Res
Asunto de la revista:
ENFERMAGEM
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Japón