The Understanding of Dignity Among In-Hospital Patients Living With Incurable Esophageal Cancer

Conclusions A dialogical and understanding approach is significant in making the patient feel worthy, consequently helping to uphold a sense of dignity. The changing and decaying body due to eating difficulties bears witness to illness, altering the individual’s sense of self, in turn threatening the dignity of identity. Implication for Practice The care should be based on a reverential response based on the patients’ lifeworld. In doing so, storytelling might be a way. Palliative care for these people needs to stress that patients share other aspects of life that is not totally dominated by their illness, inability to eat, and unrecognizable body.
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