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Direct linkRobinson, Carole A.; Pesut, Barbara; Bottorff, Joan L. – Journal of Rural Health, 2010
Context: Growing concern exists among health professionals over the dilemma of providing necessary health care for Canada's aging population. Hospice palliative services are an essential need in both urban and rural settings. Rural communities, in particular, are vulnerable to receiving inadequate services due to their geographic isolation.…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Health Personnel, Terminal Illness, Rural Areas
Wilson, Donna M.; Birch, Stephen; Sheps, Sam; Thomas, Roger; Justice, Christopher; MacLeod, Rod – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2008
The vast majority of the 220,000 Canadians who die each year, principally of old age and progressive ill health, do not have access to specialized hospice or palliative care. Hospice and palliative care programs are unevenly distributed across Canada, with existing programs limited in capacity and services varying considerably across programs.…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Terminal Illness, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFamily, Gilla – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Reports on abandoned study examining potential benefits of psychotherapy to terminal cancer patients. Preliminary feasibility study found physicians' attitudes toward their dying patients as reformed and progressive. Interest shown by physicians did not translate into tangible research effort in spite of active pursuit by investigator over period…
Descriptors: Cancer, Death, Foreign Countries, Patients
Peer reviewedPrince, Pamela N.; Hoffmann, Robert F. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1991
Examined 25 dream reports of individuals in Palliative Care Unit. Content analysis of dream reports supports hypothesis that continuity exists between dreaming and waking experience. Results did not indicate that themes of death and aggression, negative emotion, or infant and child characters were more prevalent among the dying. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Death, Dreams, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKelner, Merrijoy J.; And Others – Death Studies, 1994
Examined perceptions of 20 physicians and 20 nurses of need for, feasibility of, and value of regulations and legislation to govern dying process. Found little unanimity in their attitudes. Some believed such regulations were needed, but others believed they would seriously compromise good patient care. Also found disagreement on who should…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Death, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDavies, Betty – Death Studies, 1996
Discusses the development of Canuck Place, North America's first free-standing pediatric hospice of its kind, opened in British Columbia, Canada, in 1995. Discusses the process of assessing the need for Canuck Place. Data from traditional quantitative and less-traditional qualitative sources were used to document and develop an argument in support…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Coping, Death
