Nursing Home Staff Members’ Experiences With and Beliefs About Unusual End-of-Life Phenomena

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ID13627631
AutoresStephen Claxton-Oldfield (0000-0001-6979-0694, Mount Allison University), Stephen Claxton‐Oldfield (Mount Allison University, autor correspondente), Natalie Richard (Mount Allison University)
Ano2020
Volume86
Fascículo2
Páginas609-623
Data de publicação2020-12-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0030222820981238
PMID33334255
OpenAlexW3111628715
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas20

Twenty-two members of a nursing home took part in a study examining their experiences with and beliefs about unusual end-of-life phenomena (EOLP). Nearly all the staff members had witnessed and/or been told about residents holding on for someone to arrive or for a specific event to occur before dying (95% and 91%, respectively). Other commonly witnessed/reported EOLP included residents having sudden, unexpected moments of lucidity, sensing or feeling the presence of deceased residents, residents' dreaming about deceased relatives, friends or pets, and deathbed visions. More than three-quarters of the staff members regarded EOLP as transpersonal experiences, as comforting to dying residents and their family members, and as part of the dying process. Fourteen staff members described experiences they had had with EOLP in the nursing home. The most frequently described experiences involved the appearance of apparitions. Seventy-seven percent of the staff members expressed an interest in learning more about EOLP

Feeling · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Transpersonal · Vision · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Nursing · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology