Abstract
What does it mean to live at home at the end of life? What does it mean to support someone through this? In this chapter we present a dialogue and narratives from life and research experience about this challenging and amazing part of community-based care. It is clear that most people want to die at home (PCA, 2010), not in intensive care, or a hospital ward or even a hospice. And the people they want around them are people they know, people they trust, and people they can laugh and cry with.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Community-Based Healthcare: The Search for Mindful Dialogues |
Editors | Diane Tasker, Joy Higgs, Stephen Loftus |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
Publisher | Sense |
Pages | 123-132 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789463009959 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789463009942 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- palliative treatment
- caring networks
- terminally ill
- caregivers
- home care services