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Moore, Andrew, Carter, Bernie 
ORCID: 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
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pp. 151-158.
ISSN 13538292
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.11.00...
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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