Nursing home residents' views on dying and death: nursing home employee's perspective.

Aim: To reveal nursing home employees' views on dying and death among older people they cared for.

Background: Palliative care stakeholders recently included more groups in their definition of palliative care; older people constitute one such group. Consequently, palliative care systems, which will serve a large, aging cohort, will require new skills.

Dignity as experienced by nursing home staff.

Aims and objectives.  To explore nursing home staff members' experiences of what dignity in end of life care means to older people and to themselves. Background.

Three nursing home residents speak about meaning at the end of life.

This article provides a deeper understanding of how meaning can be created in everyday life at a nursing home. It is based on a primary study concerning dignity involving 12 older people living in two nursing homes in Sweden. A secondary analysis was carried out on data obtained from three of the primary participants interviewed over a period of time (18-24 months), with a total of 12 interviews carried out using an inductive hermeneutic approach.