‘I am closer to this place’-Space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care
Health & place | 19 Dec 2012
A Moore, B Carter, A Hunt and K Sheikh
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.
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- Geography, Cicely Saunders, Hospice, United Kingdom, Palliative care
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