Planning and providing for a good death using rural French-Canadian and English-Canadian insights.
Little is known about what constitutes a good death, although palliative care is broadly aimed at enabling the good death. Good deaths could vary considerably across populations. A two-stage ethnographic study was conducted in rural Canada, involving English-speaking Albertans and French-Canadians in Quebec, to establish a conceptual understanding of the good death from a rural perspective. This study identified four common bicultural elements, as well as a conceptual model focusing on quality of life through four dimensions: physical, spiritual, social, and emotional/psychological. Rurality was identified as a dominant consideration for further study.
Wilson
Donna M
DM
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada. donna.wilson@ualberta.ca
Fillion
Lise
L
Thomas
Roger
R
Justice
Christopher
C
Veillette
Anne-Marie
AM
Bhardwaj
Param
P
D001293:Attitude to Death / Q000208:ethnology*; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological