Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) as an unknown challenge in a long-term care institution: an embedded single case study

Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) as an unknown challenge in a long-term care institution: an embedded single case study

Abstract Background Chronically ill persons experience conditions of life that can become unbearable, resulting in the wish to end their life prematurely. Relatives confronted with this wish experience ambivalence between loyalty to the person’s desire to die and the fear of losing this person. Cari...

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Main Authors: Nadine Saladin, Wilfried Schnepp, André Fringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Nursing
Subjects:
Embedded single case study
Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED)
Hastened death
Unbearable suffering
Long-term care
Palliative care
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12912-018-0309-8

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