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  • “Caring as if it were my family”: Health care aides' perspectives about expert care of the dying resident in a personal care home

  • Susan McClement, Suzanne Wowchuk, Kathleen Klaasen
  • Journal:
    Palliative & Supportive Care / Volume 7 / Issue 4 / December 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 November 2009, pp. 449-457
  • Objective:

    A qualitative pilot study was conducted to identify and describe expert behaviors in care of the dying resident in a personal care home setting from the perspective of health care aides (N = 5) nominated by their peers as demonstrating excellence in end-of-life care.

    Methods:

    Data was collected through audio-taped semi-structured interview, and transcribed verbatim using constant-comparative analysis procedures.

    Results:

    The over-arching theme emerging from the data was “caring as if it were my family.” Subsumed within this main theme included the sub-themes of: (1) care of the resident; (2) tending to the environment; (3) care of the family; (4) going to bat; and (5) processing loss.

    Significance of results:

    The findings from this pilot study provide preliminary empirical evidence that could inform educational programs for and performance evaluation of, health care aides providing end-of-life care in personal care home environments.