ArticleNursing open2022
Family caregivers' advocacy in voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: A holistic multiple case study.
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- Should Terminal Sedation Be Expanded to Individuals Who Choose to Die Via the Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking?Bioethics · 2026Article
- Carers' Perspective on Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking: A Systematic Mixed-Methods Review of Motives and Attitudes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Nutrition in Advanced Disease and End of Life Cancer Care.Seminars in oncology nursing · 2025Review
- Family caregivers' advocacy in voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: A holistic multiple case study.Nursing open · 2022Article
- Patients Who Seek to Hasten Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Qualitative Study.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
aimTo gain insight into the experiences of family caregivers who accompanied a loved one during voluntary stopping of eating and drinking and to identify similarities and differences between cases of voluntary stopping of eating and drinking to develop a conceptual model.
designA qualitative holistic multiple case study.
methodsWe conducted narrative interviews with family caregivers (N = 17). We first analysed them inductively within the cases, followed by a cross-case analysis to merge the experiences into a conceptual model.
resultsFamily caregivers who could accept their loved one's wish to die stood up for the last will, especially when the cognitive abilities declined. They had to take on the role of an advocate to protect their self-determination from others who tried to interrupt the process. In their advocacy, they found themselves constantly in moral discrepancies. Usually without support, they provided nursing care until death. The subsequent processing phase was characterized by evaluating the dying situation and placing voluntary stopping of eating and drinking in their value scheme.
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