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Being Me and Being Us in a Family Living Close to Death at Home
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- Carlander (Goliath), Ida, 1968- (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Ternestedt, Britt-Marie (author)
- Örebro universitet,Hälsoakademin,Ersta Sköndal högskola, Stockholm, Sweden,Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden,Enheten för forskning i palliativ vård
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- Sahlberg-Blom, Eva (author)
- Örebro universitet,Hälsoakademin,Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Hellström, Ingrid (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier,Hälsouniversitetet,Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden
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- Sandberg, Jonas (author)
- Ersta Sköndal högskola,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap,Palliativt forskningscentrum, MeCaLL
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- 2011-01-24
- 2011
- English.
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In: Qualitative Health Research. - : Sage Publications Inc. - 1049-7323 .- 1552-7557. ; 21:5, s. 683-695
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Abstract
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- We used interpretive description to describe how everyday life close to death was experienced and dealt with in families with one member who had a life-threatening illness. We performed 28 individual, couple, and group interviews with five families. We found two patterns, namely, “being me in a family living close to death” and “being us in a family living close to death.” “Being me” meant that every individual in the family had to deal with the impending death, regardless of whether or not he or she was the person with the life-threatening illness. This was linked to ways of promoting the individual’s self-image, or “me-ness.” This pattern was present at the same time as the pattern of “being us,” or in other words, being a family, and dealing with impending death and a new “we-ness” as a group. “Striving for the optimal way of living close to death” was the core theme.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap -- Övrig annan medicin och hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Other Medical and Health Sciences -- Other Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- death and dying
- families
- illness and disease
- interpretive methods
- palliative care
- self
- social identity
- MEDICINE
- MEDICIN
- Palliative medicine
- Vårdvetenskap
- Caring sciences
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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