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Am J Hosp Palliat Care · Sep 2014
Providing hospice home care to the terminally ill elderly people with cancer in Taiwan: family experiences and needs.
- Hsin-Tzu Sophie Lee, Kath M Melia, Chien-An Yao, Chun-Ju Lin, Tai-Yuan Chiu, and Wen-Yu Hu.
- Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Department of Nursing, Tzu Chi College of Technology, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC.
- Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2014 Sep 1;31(6):628-35.
AbstractWe explored caregivers' experiences and needs when providing hospice home care to their terminally ill elderly patients with cancer in Taiwan for 1 year. A total of 44 caregivers were interviewed using a semistructured interview once monthly during hospice home care visits until the patients' deaths. Content analysis of the interviews revealed 5 themes, hoping for a cure, experiencing fluctuating emotions, accepting the patient's dying, regarding the patient's death as a good death, and needing emotional support and information. Caregivers in hospice home care who experienced difficulties tended to seek emotional support and information throughout the entire caregiving process. With a greater understanding of caregivers' experiences and needs, nurses can alleviate caregivers' negative emotional reactions by actively attending to their needs during this process.© The Author(s) 2013.
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