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| Nursing home residents' perception of the "good death" | | Author(s) | Florence Gelo, Linda O'Brien, Bonnie O'Connor |
| Journal title | Journal of Religious Gerontology, vol 10, no 2, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 19-28 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Personal relationships ; Death ; Dying ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Little is known about the concept of the "good death" and its relationship to formal Christian religious belief. In this research, 15 nursing home residents participated in a semi-structured open-ended interview in which they were asked to describe their beliefs about the good death experience. This paper summarises the most distinctive themes of one study on the impact of formal religious belief on attitudes regarding the good death. Most interviewees defined a good death in terms of freedom from pain and suffering, and indicated that religious faith and prayer were important to them in coping with death and dying. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990126211 A |
| Classmark | KX: LHB: DS: CW: CX: 3F: 7T |
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