Palliative care : living and dying at home

Debbie Horsfall, Joy Higgs

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCommunity-Based Healthcare: The Search for Mindful Dialogues
EditorsDiane Tasker, Joy Higgs, Stephen Loftus
Place of PublicationNetherlands
PublisherSense
Pages123-132
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9789463009959
ISBN (Print)9789463009942
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • palliative treatment
  • caring networks
  • terminally ill
  • caregivers
  • home care services

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