Innovations in Dying in the Nursing Home

The Impact of Market Characteristics

Bibliographic Data

ID13630571
AuthorsNicholas G Castle (0000-0001-5950-0788, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume36
Issue3
Pages227-240
Publication date1998-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/lkgl-517d-mbna-ux9d
OpenAlexW2051249681
LanguageEN
References cited15

During the 1980s nursing homes emerged as a dominant site of death for the elderly. This may precipitate more innovative approaches to death and dying in the nursing home and may account for the recent emergence of hospice care and pain management programs in nursing homes. However, the provision of hospice care and pain management in nursing homes are trends about which we have virtually no information. As a first step in examining these phenomena we provide a descriptive analysis of nursing homes that provide hospice care or pain management programs and an analysis of the impact of market characteristics as determinants of nursing homes providing them. Our findings suggest that the provision of pain management programs and hospice care are becoming prevalent in nursing home settings and that nursing homes are quite sensitive to their market environment indicating that policy changes could encourage further increases in these service innovations in death and dying

Business · Hospice care · Nurse education · Nursing homes · Pain management · Palliative care · Service (business · Team nursing · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

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