Invited Review

Dead Process Standardisation Related With Hospice Care Style

  • Yaşar Bilge

Received Date: 27.11.2006 Accepted Date: 07.02.2007 J Ankara Univ Fac Med 2007;60(3):110-115

Summary:

Hospice is well known organization with guidance, supportive and supply to necessi-ties for neighbourhoods and patient who have a disease which cause to happen death in terminal times. Team working physicians make possible no problem living during hospice process with emphatic, unconditional positive approachable manner and opinion to sense.

Objective:

The aim of this study is searched the influence of hospice care on the life quality and psychological state of mortal inpatients. Advantage of hospice service is determined whether con-tinuous after death with living mourning and treating negative situation at the neighbourhood.

Discussion:

Hospice care can raise the life quality, subjective support, and life satisfaction of aged mortal inpatients. It could decrease the negative mood, such as anxiety and depression and imp-rove the psychological state for patient and relatives. It can be discussed rescued ache and other suffers from terminal disease with death. Cause of death and manner of death are debated inter-ference with hospice care.

Conclusion:

The process of death is needed to standardise procedure which is understood and simple done by everybody. If neighbourhood of death believe the necessities of organ transplan-tation, autopsy and corpse cadaver for anatomic education, they will give a permission to give an organ, to make an autopsy and to keep corpse for educational status at anatomy department.

Keywords: Hospice, death process, mourning reaction, dead burial, autopsy indication