End-of-life caregiver's perspectives on their role: generative caregiving.
End-of-life caregiver's perspectives on their role: generative caregiving.
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临终护理人员对其角色的看法:生成性护理。
DOI:
10.1093/geront/gnp116
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发表时间:
2010
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通讯作者:
Reed,PamelaG
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作者:
Phillips,LindaR;Reed,PamelaG
Purpose:To describe caregivers’ constructions of their caregiving role in providing care to elders they knew were dying from life-limiting illnesses.Design and Methods:Study involved in-depth interviews with 27 family caregivers. Data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis.Results:Four categories were identified: centering life on the elder, maintaining a sense of normalcy, minimizing suffering, and gift giving. Generative caregiving was the term adopted to describe the end-of-life (EOL) caregiving role. Generative caregiving is situated in the present with a goal to enhance the elder’s present quality of life, but also draws from the past and projects into the future with a goal to create a legacy that honors the elder and the elder–caregiver relationship.Implications:Results contribute to our knowledge about EOL caregiving by providing an explanatory framework and setting the caregiving experience in the context of life-span development.