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This 3 page paper explicates an article about a study done on hospice and non-hospice care. Surprisingly, the survey shows no difference between the two groups with their attitudes toward quality of life. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Discussion In 2007, Audra Douglas and her colleagues undertook a study of terminally ill patients in and out of the hospice setting. The aim of hospice care is not only
to comfort the dying; its also believed that providing "holistic, patient-centered care and support" will reinforce the idea of lifes quality, "even at the outer limits of its quantity" (Douglas,
2007, p. 183). It was therefore Douglass intention to confirm the widely-held belief that hospice care is the most beneficial care available for terminal patients; that is, they do better
in hospice than in a hospital or at home. There has been little research done on this subject, possibly because it is extremely sensitive and death and dying are
still things that most people in the U.S. are not comfortable discussing. It was Douglass intent to survey terminally ill people in both the hospice and out-of-hospice setting, to see
if she could confirm the theory that being in a hospice improves the quality of a patients life (Douglas, 2007). The quality of life of a terminal patient may seem
like an oxymoron, because the outcome is known and is not favorable. But Douglas points out that in this context, quality of life is defined differently than it is for
healthier people; the terminally ill may consider that they have a good quality of life if they have retained a "sense of personal integrity and wholeness, rather than normal physical,
emotional and social functioning" (Douglas, 2007, p. 184). In order to test the theory, Douglas used two groups, one in-hospice and one outside of the hospice setting; there were 76
patients invited to participate in the study and 66 were accepted (Douglas, 2007). Thirty-one patients were in a hospice setting while the other 35 were "receiving palliative radiation and/or chemotherapy
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