Wishes of nursing home residents for their dying

Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Sandra KurkowskiKäte Volland-Schüssel

Abstract

Institutions of inpatient geriatric care are dependent on specific and practicable concepts for the terminal care of old people, because residential and nursing homes are places for the last phase of life. The objective of this study was to identify the wishes of residents for their dying who live in a residential or nursing home. The analysis was based on 10 semi-structured expert interviews with residential and nursing home residents. The interviews were evaluated using the method of qualitative summarizing content analysis. Based on the grounded theory a procedure was selected in which data were collected, prepared and evaluated in parallel. Residents expressed, inter alia, the following wishes: not to receive life-prolonging measures, not to have pain, not to be in need of care or bedridden, to receive affection while dying and to find forgiveness and reconciliation as well as to die peacefully in the residential and/or nursing home. In addition, there were a variety of wishes, which, due to their diversity make a unified approach to the palliative care of older people in residential and/or nursing homes impractical. The study showed that residents are thinking about dying and/or death, have desires for their dying and are ...Continue Reading

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