Palliative day care : a community for people with progressive and life-threatening conditions
Palliative day care : a community for people with progressive and life-threatening conditions
The research comprised two case studies of palliative day care with purported to provide different models of care. The case studies were based on a methodology of constructivist inquiry, and built on data collected via observant, interviews, examination of documents/visual information and a focus group. These were collected and analysed within a hermeneutic dialectic process to develop a joint construction of the service. Data collected in this process were then subjected to further analysis to develop a proposition regarding PDC that explained patient experience of palliative day care and its benefits from the perspective of its users.
The experience and views of patients using both services studied were broadly similar. Patients experienced the service as a place in which they could meet others who shared their condition or were sympathetic to their situation. This meeting took place in a pleasant and supportive environment and offered opportunities for new friendships, companionship, diversion and creativity. Those who joined the service identified it as a valuable source of social support, replacing that which had been lost as a consequence of their illness. A proposition is posed within the research based on the shared experiences of PDC across the services which suggests that palliative day care serves as community, to which people with progressive and life threatening conditions can belong. It is particularly important for those whose social being is at risk.
This research serves to confirm many of the recent findings related to the nature of PDC according to its users, namely its offer of social support. It makes a unique contribution to knowledge in its proposition which serves to identify the structural elements of this service and its processes of care which give rise to this support.
University of Southampton
Richardson, Heather Anne
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2005
Richardson, Heather Anne
f54ee413-0c24-4985-b7a9-13268cee511a
Richardson, Heather Anne
(2005)
Palliative day care : a community for people with progressive and life-threatening conditions.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The research comprised two case studies of palliative day care with purported to provide different models of care. The case studies were based on a methodology of constructivist inquiry, and built on data collected via observant, interviews, examination of documents/visual information and a focus group. These were collected and analysed within a hermeneutic dialectic process to develop a joint construction of the service. Data collected in this process were then subjected to further analysis to develop a proposition regarding PDC that explained patient experience of palliative day care and its benefits from the perspective of its users.
The experience and views of patients using both services studied were broadly similar. Patients experienced the service as a place in which they could meet others who shared their condition or were sympathetic to their situation. This meeting took place in a pleasant and supportive environment and offered opportunities for new friendships, companionship, diversion and creativity. Those who joined the service identified it as a valuable source of social support, replacing that which had been lost as a consequence of their illness. A proposition is posed within the research based on the shared experiences of PDC across the services which suggests that palliative day care serves as community, to which people with progressive and life threatening conditions can belong. It is particularly important for those whose social being is at risk.
This research serves to confirm many of the recent findings related to the nature of PDC according to its users, namely its offer of social support. It makes a unique contribution to knowledge in its proposition which serves to identify the structural elements of this service and its processes of care which give rise to this support.
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Published date: 2005
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