Add to ORKGthat time, terminally ill hospitalized patients did not “fit ” the mission of hospitals – to cure. Physicians equated terminal ill-ness with failure; thus terminally ill patients were often “placed … at the end of the hall.”1 Dame Cicely took it upon herself to help these patients, usually suffering from advanced cancer, with the goal of facilitating dignity and comfort as death approached. She founded St. Christopher’s Hospice, believ-ing that dying people have the right to an improved quality of life, using pain control and social and emotional support to achieve psychological and spiritual contentment. Dame Cicely’s vision for end of life care soon spread to the United States where it became known as “palliative care.” Dame Cicely’s app...
This paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement Founder, ...
The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life in the broadest sense for patients with...
Buffalo Hospice had its origin in 1974 when Charlotte Shedd, a devoted nurse, decided that such a fa...
From the moment her interest in terminal care was awakened, Cicely Saunders was alert to the interna...
From the moment her interest in terminal care was awakened, Cicely Saunders was alert to the interna...
In 1957 Cicely Saunders wrote her first paper on the care of the dying. Two years later the vision ...
From nineteenth century roots, palliative care developed in the later part of the twentieth century ...
From nineteenth century roots, palliative care developed in the later part of the twentieth century ...
Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at schoo...
Providing care for dying people has existed in cultures around the globe and throughout recorded his...
none20noThis paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement F...
Palliative care developed in the later part of the 20th century as a social movement and medical spe...
improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life...
The leader of the modern hospice movement in the UK, Dame Cicely Saunders OM FRCP, discusses the bir...
This paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement Founder, ...
This paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement Founder, ...
The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life in the broadest sense for patients with...
Buffalo Hospice had its origin in 1974 when Charlotte Shedd, a devoted nurse, decided that such a fa...
From the moment her interest in terminal care was awakened, Cicely Saunders was alert to the interna...
From the moment her interest in terminal care was awakened, Cicely Saunders was alert to the interna...
In 1957 Cicely Saunders wrote her first paper on the care of the dying. Two years later the vision ...
From nineteenth century roots, palliative care developed in the later part of the twentieth century ...
From nineteenth century roots, palliative care developed in the later part of the twentieth century ...
Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at schoo...
Providing care for dying people has existed in cultures around the globe and throughout recorded his...
none20noThis paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement F...
Palliative care developed in the later part of the 20th century as a social movement and medical spe...
improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life...
The leader of the modern hospice movement in the UK, Dame Cicely Saunders OM FRCP, discusses the bir...
This paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement Founder, ...
This paper is aimed at focusing on the writings and the experience of the Hospice movement Founder, ...
The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life in the broadest sense for patients with...
Buffalo Hospice had its origin in 1974 when Charlotte Shedd, a devoted nurse, decided that such a fa...
