In Japan, there are no acts and, specific provisions or official guidelines on euthanasia, but recently, as I will mention below, an official guideline on "death with dignity" has been made. Nevertheless in fact, this guideline provides only a few rules of process on terminal care. Therefore the problems of euthanasia and "death with dignity" are mainly left to the legal interpretation by liter...

PURPOSE This study examined a novel intervention, dignity therapy, designed to address psychosocial and existential distress among terminally ill patients. Dignity therapy invites patients to discuss issues that matter most or that they would most want remembered. Sessions are transcribed and edited, with a returned final version that they can bequeath to a friend or family member. The objectiv...

BACKGROUND Dignity therapy is psychotherapy to relieve psychological and existential distress in patients at the end of life. Little is known about its effect. AIM To analyse the outcomes of dignity therapy in patients with advanced life-threatening diseases. DESIGN Systematic review was conducted. Three authors extracted data of the articles and evaluated quality using Critical Appraisal S...

Ensuring that people living in nursing homes (NHs) are afforded with dignity in their daily lives is an essential and humane concern. Promoting dignity-conserving care is fundamentally important. By nature, however, this care is all-encompassing and holistic, and from current knowledge it is challenging to create explicit strategies for measuring dignity-conserving care. In practice the majorit...

BACKGROUND the empirical Dignity Model has profoundly influenced the provision of palliative care for older terminally ill patients in the West, as it provides practical guidance and intervention strategies for promoting dignity and reducing distress at the end-of-life. OBJECTIVE to examine the concept of 'living and dying with dignity' in the Chinese context, and explore the generalisability...

BACKGROUND Death with dignity has been identified as important both to patients and their surviving family. While research results have been published on what patients themselves believe may affect the dignity of their deaths, little is known about what family caregivers consider to be a dignified death. AIM (1) To assess the prevalence of death with dignity in older adults from the perspecti...