life, finding meaning in their illness, relieving suffering associated with the illness and its treatments, and providing the emotional and spiritual support to find comfort and strength even when faced with a life-limiting illness. Search... Sherman,D Witt - 《Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nur...
Increased longevity, life-extending medical technology, and growing health-care costs have given rise to much discussion of the meaning of life in old age and to suggestions that limits be set on the length of life: by suicide or by limiting medical treatment. It is argued that, while recomm...
Findings identified three key themes: the existence of normative goals; expertise from lived experience, and the meaning of independence for someone with a complex impairment. These themes are further discussed through the lens of 'post-human thinking', and implications for practice are explored....
Parents whose child died a violent death (i.e., accident, homicide or suicide) found it more challenging to make-meaning of the situation relative to parents whose child died a non-violent death (perinatal, natural anticipated, or natural sudden) [130]. There has been little work ...
[14,15,22] and try to find meaning in his or her brief life [15,17,18]. They want to be recognized and treated as parents [7]. After perinatal loss, families feel urged to bid farewell and feel regret if they are not able to do so [23]. Memory making helps them to create ...
Holistic Life Planning/Finding Meaning and Purpose My role is to support your efforts to CLARIFY YOUR VISION (help you define your strengths and create a clear picture of your successful future and healthy lifestyle); ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS (help you translate your vision into focused goals, strateg...
We think things like this: If I had enoughmoneyto do the things that I find meaningful, then I could lead a meaningful life. Since I don’t have enough money to do those things, my life has no meaning. I’m single and I won’t have a meaningful life until I am in a long-term...
(b) dreams evoke deep existential, philosophical and religious questioning in the attempt to find meaning and purpose in illness; (c) dreams evoke the need to renegotiate self-identity in illness; (d) shadow characteristics of death-archetypes evolve to archetypes of transformation and meaning; (...
Charities have warned that the drop in income over the past few months could put their hospices and hospice at home services at risk of closure. Hospice charities play a vital role on the frontline ensuring that people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, who might otherwise be in...
Individual and group meaning‐making in an urban third grade classroom: Red fog, cold cans, and seeping vapor We examined third graders' understandings of condensation using an expanded notion of the Emergent Perspective, a reflexive consideration of individual and... S Southerland,J Kittleson,J ...