Fading Away: The Experience of Transition in Families With Terminal Illness (Death, Value and Meaning)
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Book Overview
This book comes out of an in-depth, qualitative study of the experiences of twenty-three families in which one parent was dying of cancer. The study attempted to better understand the impact of terminal illness on the entire family system and sought to develop a theoretical framework that would guide the assessment of and services to such families. As a result of interviews with patients, spouses and their adult children over three phases of the study, the process of ""fading away"" was identified and conceptualized in terms of various phases which contributed to this process. The book is not a research report but rather presents more generally the ideas that developed from the study, with two purposes: to increase the reader's understanding of particular experiences that families encounter when dealing with terminal illness, specifically cancer. The intended readership also includes families themselves: to propose guidelines for care to be considered by practitioners working with such families.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0895031272
ISBN13:9780895031273
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:Routledge
Length:152 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Helping health care pros empathize with terminal patients
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book was written mainly for professionals in the field supporting families of terminal cancer patients. Interviews were done and related to help professionals see the experience from the family's point of view. It was a study conducted by oncology RNs. I would definitely recommend this for health care professionals.I would also recommend this book for families facing life with a terminal cancer patient. I found some comfort in reading about the emotions other people have dealt with in the dilemma of living with and dying of cancer. I didn't find any "answers" in this book, but recognized myself in its pages.The book is a quick read. It was also overpriced. But I guess that is because it was a clinical study, and not widely marketable.
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