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Signs and Timing of Sings of Nearing Death of the Elderly Sensed by Nurses in Nursing Homes that Actively Strive to Give the End-of-life Care Kazue Iwase 1,2 , Towako Katsuno 3 1Department of Nursing Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University 2Kawasaki City College of Nursing 3Division of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University Keyword: 特別養護老人ホーム , 看取り , 死期のサイン , 高齢者 , 死期を察知した時期 , nursing home , end-of-life , signs of nearing death , the elderly , times of sensing of nearing death pp.56-63
Published Date 2013/11/30
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 The purpose of this study was to clarify the signs sensed by the nurses from the elderly who are going to die, and the timing of those signs in special nursing homes for the elderly (called ‘nursing home' hereafter) that actively strive to give end-of-life care. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on eight nurses working in nursing homes, and the data were analyzed qualitatively using content analysis. Nineteen signs by which nurses predicted that the elderly death was nearing were categorized. Fourteen categories such as “lack of eye strength”, “losing of persistence to live”, “skin becoming fair” were observed one month before elderly death. Five categories such as “change of respiratory condition”, “appearance of edema” were observed about two days before an elderly death. This study may suggest the importance for nurses to predict the elderly's death by two-phase signs and to provide and coordinate appropriate care for the elderly in order to enhance the end-of-life care in nursing homes.


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電子版ISSN 2432-0811 印刷版ISSN 1346-9665 日本老年看護学会

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