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KMID : 0439019990080020044
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Korean Journal of Nursing Query
1999 Volume.8 No. 2 p.44 ~ p.60
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Hospice Present and Future
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원주희/Won, Ju Hee
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Abstract
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Modern medical science currently focuses on improving quality of life and life-span, and has seen great research progress over the past century. In this context, the Hospice movement could be viewed as less newsworthy because it focuses exclusively on caring for patients in the less glamorous, terminal stage of life. However, on the contrary, interest in the Hospice has grown continuously during the past 30 years.
The Hospice can also be expected to progress further in the 21 st century. Medical science will continue to develop and prolong lives. In spite of the progress in Medical science, the high death rate due to the incurable disease will remain, and the process of death will also be longer. Futhermore, more patients(and families) will be touched by pain and the Hospice will be needed more than ever.
Medical science does not deal with the nature of death, and must content itself with describing the phenomenon, just as it deals with the phenomenon and not the nature of life. As death and terminal disease are viewed as the point at which medical science has failed, patients who reach this stage are alienated and suffer physically and mentally. It is this view as ´failure of medical science´ that risks ignoring the patients´ needs, their human dignity and personality.
This will greatly increase the need for the services of the Hospice, which caters for the whole patient to improve the quality of their remaining lives.
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