X-Message-Number: 26925 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:29:01 +0200 From: Eugen Leitl <> Subject: [: [ccm-l] Home Death:The Caregivers' Experiences] --68DmL13w0Y+UeQNe Content-Disposition: inline ----- Forwarded message from Eric Hodgson <> ----- From: Eric Hodgson <> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:42:48 +0200 To: Subject: [ccm-l] Home Death:The Caregivers' Experiences X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Reply-To: Home Death?The Caregivers' Experiences Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Volume 30, Issue 1 , July 2005, Pages 70-74 Yoram Singer MD, Yaacov G. Bachner PhD, Pesach Shvartzman MD and Sara Carmel PhD Center for Family Medicine and Primary Care (Y.S., P.S.) and Department of Sociology of Health (Y.G.B., S.C.), Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Abstract The objectives of this study were to evaluate caregivers' experiences concerning the care of a terminally ill loved one at home, and to compare the death experiences of caregivers with and without access to homecare programs. The primary caregivers of all the patients who died of cancer 6?18 months before the study period (1999?2001) in the Negev area were contacted. This group included 240 caregivers of patients who died in the home palliative care program and 404 caregivers of patients who died with no access to a home palliative care program. A total of 159 caregivers were interviewed, 76 from the home palliative program and 83 who had no access to a palliative care program. Death at home occurred for 80.3% of patients with access to homecare and 20.5% of those without access. Despite the fact that caring for a loved one at home was a greater financial and emotional burden, there was a greater overall satisfaction with the caring experience of those whose loved ones died at home and had access to the homecare program. Given appropriate professional support systems, home-based care at the end of life is preferable to most caregivers. Key Words: Home death; caregivers; cancer patients ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --68DmL13w0Y+UeQNe Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDGbMtdbAkQ4sp9r4RAkhSAKChgtIF8emalweXEY69heC4HZPRSACcCf8C 6xVxoVIQ4EPr+5d1Fp5C90Q YA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --68DmL13w0Y+UeQNe-- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26925