‘I am closer to this place’ – Space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care

Moore, Andrew, Carter, Bernie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-5226-9878, Hunt, Anne and Sheikh, Kay (2013) ‘I am closer to this place’ – Space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care. Health & Place, 19 (-). pp. 151-158. ISSN 13538292

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Abstract

In the United Kingdom hospice day care services are the fastest growing yet least researched of the palliative care services. Using photo-elicitation interviews with 11 day care patients attending a specialist hospice day care setting we explored their experiences of the hospice as a place and how these changed over time.

Informed by concepts from existential and humanistic geography we propose three existential modes of being – Drifting, Sheltering and Venturing - which characterize the patients’ lived experiences of the hospice. Our phenomenological analysis shows that the hospice is (re)constructed purposefully to achieve a sense of ‘home’ and ‘homelikeness’, creating an important therapeutic landscape for patients.


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