CHORY TERMINALNIE I JEGO RODZINA
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1999
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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A TERMINALLY-ILL MAN AND HIS FAMILY
Abstract
The increasing number of men falling ill with cancer and the number of decease because of
this illness poses more and more strongly the problem of a care of terminally-ill persons. The
medicine focuses mainly on curing an ill patient and has neglected the function of care of a dying
person. The hospice care offers a help to a person in agony, dying in suffering and loneliness. The
article presents the situation of a hospice patient and of his family which is the point of reference
for the role and activities of the hospice officers and demonstrates how is this help being appreciated
by persons under care. The Author has made his research study in the period 1995 - 1997; the
study referred to the ills, their families, hospice volunteers and officers of palliative care, and -
finally - to hospice and palliative centres. In particular - the article discusses such issues as
qualifying criteria for a hospice patient, methods of getting in contact with the ill, his reactions to
his own state of the health and also - the quality itself of social relations as formed before the
illness and then - under its influence.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 61, 1999, z. 1, s. 263-278.
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0035-9629