Sökning: "impending death"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden impending death.
1. Patients' reactions to impending death : a clinical study
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2. Me-ness and we-ness in a modified everyday life close to death at home
Sammanfattning : The overarching aim of this thesis was to describe how family members experienced everyday life with life-threatening illness close to death, with focus on self-image and identity. The thesis comprises four papers, each with a specific aim to illuminate various aspects of the phenomenon under study. LÄS MER
3. Enabling at-homeness for older people despite their severe ilness and impending death
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe the phenomenon of at-homeness and how athomeness could be enabled for older people with severe illness and impending death. The project comprises four studies and was guided by an interpretive description design. LÄS MER
4. In-hospital patient safety - prevention of deterioration and unexpected death by systematic and interprofessional use of early warning scoring
Sammanfattning : Abstract In-hospital patient safety is at times hampered, leaving general ward patients at considerable risk of gradual, even life-threatening, deterioration. In many European clinical settings, inappropriate nursing practice of bedside monitoring and management has recently been addressed as impending to in-hospital patient safety. LÄS MER
5. Bio-behavioral inquiries regarding cognitive aging and distance to death: The role of gender, APOE, grip strength and subjective memory
Sammanfattning : To better understand the nature of cognitive functioning later in life, it is important to gain further knowledge regarding factors that contribute to cognitive aging. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis was to investigate cognitive change in relation to a select set of bio-behavioral markers (i.e. LÄS MER