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Care at home: Nursing

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Care at home: Nursing

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• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Carers >> Interview 40 >> Patients who needed help to eat were not always given necessary help due to lack of staff.

Daughter of a man who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in June 2001, at the age of 81, and who died in October 2001.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 51-60 >> Interview 30 >> A shortage of nurses led to insufficient care at times.

Diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2001, followed by a total colectomy (removal of the large intestine) 2002. Secondary tumours found in the liver in 2002, treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 71-80 >> Interview 26 >> Describes the different cultures on the wards she was in and suggests that the 'tender loving care' aspect of nursing is sometimes forgotten.

Diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2002, followed by surgery and chemotherapy.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 51-60 >> Interview 30 >> Says a hospice is more relaxed than a hospital and he is never forced out of bed.

Diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2001, followed by a total colectomy (removal of the large intestine) 2002. Secondary tumours found in the liver in 2002, treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 61-70 >> Interview 27 >> His wife, who is a trained nurse, gave him nursing care and emotional support.

Diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which has been treated with pain relief and other symptom control.

• Dying & bereavement >> Living with Dying >> Age 61-70 >> Interview 39 >> The care she received in the hospice was 'amazing' and she would happily return there.

Diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in 1995, which was treated with regular chemotherapy, at least every nine months. In 2003 developed metastases in the spine.