Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of dignity-preserving care for older home-dwelling women with incurable cancer in Norway
Staats, Katrine; Christensen, Karen Erika Kirsten; Grov, Ellen Karine; Husebø, Bettina Elisabeth Franziska; Tranvåg, Oscar
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Staats, K., Christensen, K., Grov, E. K., Husebø, B. S., & Tranvåg, O. (2021). Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of dignity-preserving care for older home-dwelling women with incurable cancer in Norway. Journal of Women & Aging 10.1080/08952841.2021.1946375Abstract
Municipal end-of-life care for older home-dwelling patients with cancer is a complex matter requiring healthcare professionals (HCPs) to recognize gender differences in a social, historical and organizational context. A qualitative approach was chosen to explore and identify HCPs value-based principles and organizational conditions promoting dignity-preserving care practice for these women. HCPs recognized the importance of sheltering the women’s identity, their sense of being home and acknowledged their personal preferences as value-based principles, whereas creating a flexible culture of care, establishing a functional professional collaboration and developing individualized plans of care, were crucial organizational conditions influencing the practice of dignity-preserving care.