Palliative Care Unit
Research
Research interests
- Public health approach to end of life care
- end-of-life policy
- near-death experiences and visions
- pastoral care and spirituality
- social models of palliative care service delivery
- loss, grief and bereavement
- disenfranchised grief
- non-compliance with medical treatments in life-threatening illness
- social aspects of death, dying and mystical experiences
- social experiences of living with cancer
- the role of animal companions in chronic illness
Research Supervision
Our staff offer research supervision in the areas of
- health promoting palliative care
- history and sociology of death, dying and loss
- pastoral care and spiritual perspectives in palliative care
- sociology of mystical experiences; and
- the social experiences of living with life-threatening illness
|
