Book contents
- Facing Death Across Cultures
- Facing Death Across Cultures
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to a Cultural Species
- Module 1 The Basic Psychological Components of Culture
- Module 2 Becoming Human
- Module 3 Acculturation
- Module 4 Multicultural Adaptation
- Module 5 Health and Well-Being
- Module 6 Disease and Healing
- Module 7 Diversity and the Conventional Medical World
- Module 8 Thinking about Death
- Module 9 Managing Mortality and Difficult Passages
- Module 10 Cultures Approach the End
- Module 11 Critical and End-of-Life Care
- Module 12 Culture, Passages, and Psychosocial Supports
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Module 11 - Critical and End-of-Life Care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2025
- Facing Death Across Cultures
- Facing Death Across Cultures
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to a Cultural Species
- Module 1 The Basic Psychological Components of Culture
- Module 2 Becoming Human
- Module 3 Acculturation
- Module 4 Multicultural Adaptation
- Module 5 Health and Well-Being
- Module 6 Disease and Healing
- Module 7 Diversity and the Conventional Medical World
- Module 8 Thinking about Death
- Module 9 Managing Mortality and Difficult Passages
- Module 10 Cultures Approach the End
- Module 11 Critical and End-of-Life Care
- Module 12 Culture, Passages, and Psychosocial Supports
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Healthcare providers try to prepare their patients and clients for death, but may encounter obstacles from their own ethos in addition to client resistance. Palliative and hospice care provide affordable and humane avenues that differ slightly. Palliative care focuses on client comfort and may coincide with other treatments. Hospice, by definition, follows cessation of treatment. Previously discussed issues of agency, consent, and epistemology now coalesce, potentially to impede or prevent provision of the best end-of-life care, whatever that may be for the patient. Controversial issues include euthanasia and organ donation, though euthanasia is probably millennia old. Patient-centered communication provides tools to bridge understanding. People need support in these situations, which may need to be offered in particular ways.
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- Facing Death Across CulturesHealth and Mortality in a Diverse World, pp. 210 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025