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A few months to live
— different paths to life's end | | Author(s) | Jana Staton, Roger Shuy, Ira Byock |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2001 |
| Pages | 358 pp |
| Keywords | Death ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Case studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The research on which this book is based is part of the Missoula Demonstration Project: The Quality of Life's End (MDP). An ethnographic approach is used to report on the last months of nine terminally ill people in Missoula, Montana, during 1997 - along with those who cared for them (mostly at home). It focuses on participants' everyday life, what was going well for them, what they enjoyed, and what was difficult about living with advanced, incurable illness. Data was collected by talking informally with participants; conversations were tape recorded for later analysis. Chapters cover the following themes: communicating about death and dying; planning and choices; professional care and doctor-patient communication; knowledge of illness and attitudes toward pain and death; daily life and meaningful activities; the family caregiving experience; support and lack of support for family caregivers; personal growth, meaning and spirituality; the final days of life; and memorials at the end of life. Appendices provide technical information on the research design and study methodology. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020913001 B |
| Classmark | CW: CX: LV: 69P: 7T |
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