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KMID : 0895320170260010023
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Korean Journal of Research in Gerontology
2017 Volume.26 No. 1 p.23 ~ p.35
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Dignity Therapy for Older Adults and Patients near the End of Life
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Kim Yoo-Sook
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Abstract
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As life expectancy is increasing due to advanced biomedical sciences, people have increasingly paid attention to quality of life in the second half of life such as dying process, for instance, a good death. According to a number of studies on the good death, it would help older patients to die in dignity while they have sense of connectedness with their acquaintances. The sense of connectedness, which is a kind of belief about l ife after death, make the patients find solace and keep dignity when they die. While Chochinov was working on the good death with the dying people, he developed a model of dignity therapy to assist patients dealing with the imminent end of their lives for dying cancer patients. Attributes of the good death and how to implement in a community-based hospice setting were introduced in this article. Dignity therapy allows patients to leave a formalized legacy document which contains history, meaning and value of their life to desired loved people and family members, and also makes them be able to maintain feelings of physical comfort, interpersonal connectedness, belonging, autonomy in the face of impending death.
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KEYWORD
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Good death, Dignity, Dignity therapy, Interpersonal connectedness, Documentation
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