Living, loving, dying: Insights into rural compassion.
bereavement
compassion
end-of-life care
health promoting palliative care
rural palliative care
Journal
The Australian journal of rural health
ISSN: 1440-1584
Titre abrégé: Aust J Rural Health
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 9305903
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2019
Aug 2019
Historique:
received:
22
10
2018
revised:
08
05
2019
accepted:
15
05
2019
pubmed:
27
6
2019
medline:
6
2
2020
entrez:
27
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To improve understandings of the enablers and barriers to maintaining good quality of life for people dying, caring and grieving in rural areas. In-depth interviews designed on participatory research principles were held with bereaved carers living in a small community in rural Tasmania. Participants had cared for someone until their death within the 3-year period prior. Nineteen participants comprising 18 bereaved former carers and one person with a life-limiting illness, and all but four were over retirement age. To explore experiences of end-of-life care in a rural community. Participants discussed the challenges they experienced during end-of-life caring, including transport into the city for treatment, and access to basic and specialised services. However, they also reported positive aspects of formal and informal palliative care, and described experiences of personable, expert, flexible and innovative caregiving. The rural location enabled personalised and innovative expressions of care. This research adds new insight into rural end-of-life palliation, as a complex intersection of supererogation, innovation and place-driven care.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
328-335Informations de copyright
© 2019 National Rural Health Alliance Ltd.
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