Title: The feeling of being a burden by elderly patients in a long-term care. Purpose: To find out how the nurse can help the patient alleviate this perceived burden. Method: Integrative literature review Result: Suggestions like knowing the patient, supporting patient ́s autonomy and independence and affirming the patient ́s dignity, and worth as a person were found in the literature. The import...

The current investigation is a planned, systematic study of dignity as critical to understanding the experience of homelessness and improving services and programs for the homeless. Specifically, we conducted a thematic content analysis of interviews with 24 homeless men and women to identify their perception of specific environmental events that validate and invalidate dignity. In addition, we...

BACKGROUND Dignity therapy is a brief psychotherapy that has been shown to enhance the end of life experience. Dignity therapy often involves family carers to support patients weakened by illness and family carers are also the usual recipients of the legacy documents created. No research to date has examined the impact of dignity therapy on family carers at the time of the intervention. This st...

Using the word "hateful" is not the only option in describing patients who induce in clinicians feelings of dread. We suggest an alternative approach to the language of hate, one that seeks dignity and perhaps even a divine spark in every patient.

Positions on the ethics of human enhancement technologies can be (crudely) characterized as ranging from transhumanism to bioconservatism. Transhumanists believe that human enhancement technologies should be made widely available, that individuals should have broad discretion over which of these technologies to apply to themselves, and that parents should normally have the right to choose enhan...

Background: Navigating inpatient care can be complex and distressing for patients, particularly as they grapple with the emotional physical changes brought about by their condition. Ensuring preservation of human dignity during this period is vital, it directly influences an individual’s self-esteem overall quality life, most prominently end-of-life care. The hospital milieu behaviour healthcar...

Background: In paternalistic models, healthcare providers’ responsibility is to decide what is best for patients. The main concern is that such models fail to respect patient autonomy and do not promote patient responsibility. Aim: To evaluate mental healthcare team members’ perceptions of their own role in encouraging elderly persons to participate in shared decision-making after implementatio...

Americans are increasingly turning to hospice services to provide them with medical care, pain management, and emotional support at the end of life. The increase in the rates of hospice utilization is explained by a number of factors including a "hospice movement" dating to the 1970s which emphasized hospice as a tool to promote dignity for the terminally ill; coverage of hospice services by Me...

Patient-Initiated Research in Rheumatic Diseases in Sweden – Dignity, Identity and Quality of Life in Focus When Patients Set the Research Agenda U. Bergsten*, A.-M. Andrey, L. Bottner, M. Nylander, G. Persson, E. Petersson & S. Bergman Spenshult Hospital for Rheumatic diseases, Oskarström, Sweden Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden Swedish Rheumatism Association, Stockholm, Sweden

BACKGROUND Dignity therapy is a unique, individualised, short-term psychotherapy that was developed for patients (and their families) living with life-threatening or life-limiting illness. We investigated whether dignity therapy could mitigate distress or bolster the experience in patients nearing the end of their lives. METHODS Patients (aged ≥18 years) with a terminal prognosis (life expect...