IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/clnure/v18y2009i1p80-97.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Into the Abyss of Someone Else's Dying

Author

Listed:
  • Linda R. Phillips

    (UCLA School of Nursing)

  • Pamela G. Reed

    (University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona)

Abstract

This study was undertaken to better understand family caregivers' perspectives of providing end-of-life (EOL) care to elders facing expected deaths from life-limiting, chronic illnesses, and the study involved understanding the nature of EOL caregiving using caregivers' own words. The study employed a cross-sectional, exploratory descriptive design. The data source was intensive interviews with 27 EOL caregivers. Eight themes were extracted from data that exemplify the core characteristics of EOL caregiving. The themes intersected at a central idea expressed in the voice of one caregiver as “jumping . . . into the abyss of someone else's dying.†Data suggested that caregivers of elders with life-limiting illnesses needed nursing guidance about EOL care earlier than it is usually provided and that all nurses providing care to elders in any setting should be ready to offer early education in the practical, technical, and emotional dimensions of end-of-life caregiving.

Suggested Citation

  • Linda R. Phillips & Pamela G. Reed, 2009. "Into the Abyss of Someone Else's Dying," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 18(1), pages 80-97, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:18:y:2009:i:1:p:80-97
    DOI: 10.1177/1054773808330538
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1054773808330538
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/1054773808330538?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:18:y:2009:i:1:p:80-97. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.