Older Persons’ Ethical Problems Involving Their Health

Cameron, Miriam E.

doi:10.1191/0969733002ne543oa

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“…Old and especially very old people who are close to the end of their lives may ponder and reflect over their life and forthcoming death and dying process (1). Their views of death and dying are of the utmost importance for health care staff to know, since they may form the basis for how to approach people at the end of life and release them from death anxiety.…”

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Death and dying from old people’s point of view. A literature review

Hallberg

2004

Aging Clin Exp Res

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Providing high-quality end-of-life care to older people is a requirement especially for countries with a high proportion of old and very old people. This calls for an understanding of older people's view of death and dying, and one way forward is to investigate the current knowledge base. This study aimed at reviewing the literature of empirical studies about older people's view of death and dying, whether in a terminal phase of life or not. A total of 33 publications were included, identified in a stepwise literature search done in Medline, CINAHL and PsychInfo, using the terms "death", "attitude to death", "death" and "dying" in combination with "aged". Very few studies focused solely on the oldest old. The designs were mainly cross-sectional, quantitative or qualitative, using personal interviews. Some common themes of importance for further research were revealed, such as older people's readiness to talk about death and dying, conceptions of death, after-death and dying, and were seemingly related to anxiety about death, the impact on and of those close by, having both negative and positive connotations, especially related to balancing closeness, being a burden and dependency, death anxiety and its possible antecedents, the fine line between natural sadness and suffering from depression, and worry about the end-of-life phase. The lack of studies dealing with older people's view of death and dying, and the heterogeneity with regard to research questions and samples implies that findings may serve mainly as inspiration for further research.

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Death and dying from old people’s point of view. A literature review

Hallberg

2004

Aging Clin Exp Res

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“…One might need to resolve conflict to reframe and reshape the past. The perception of living life to the fullest results in a sense of enjoyment of life, and good quality of life or good life (Cameron, 2002; Mak & Clinton, 1999; Sandman, 2002; Toresen, 2003), with minimal regret about the past (Long, 2003). Completion of all business in due time is also an important feature of living a full life (Long, 2002; McNamara et al, 1995).…”

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Concept Analysis of Good Death in the Japanese Community

Hattori¹,

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Ishida³

2006

J of Nursing Scholarship

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“…Most persons wish practitioners would start these discussions earlier than the end of life to help frame the ethics and decisions of dementia care near death (45). Older patients with dementia pose a unique challenge for practitioners concerning ANH (46).…”

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