title: 'I am closer to this place'--space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care.
abstract: In the United Kingdom hospice day care services are the fastest growing yet least researched of the palliative care services. Using photo-elicitation interviews with 11 day care patients attending a specialist hospice day care setting we explored their experiences of the hospice as a place and how these changed over time. Informed by concepts from existential and humanistic geography we propose three existential modes of being--Drifting, Sheltering and Venturing--which characterize the patients' lived experiences of the hospice. Our phenomenological analysis shows that the hospice is (re)constructed purposefully to achieve a sense of 'home' and 'homelikeness', creating an important therapeutic landscape for patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE, United Kingdom. a.j.moore@keele.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Bernie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Kay
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sheikh
mesh_terms: D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009369:Neoplasms; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010781:Photography; D036301:Qualitative Research; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*