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Preferred Place of Care and Death Among the Terminally Ill: Asian Perspectives and Implications for Hong Kong

Preferred Place of Care and Death Among the Terminally Ill: Asian Perspectives and Implications for Hong Kong

Raymond Kam-wing Woo, Annie Oi Ling Kwok, Doris Man Wah Tse
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522526339|ISBN10: 1522526331|EISBN13: 9781522526346
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch015
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Woo, Raymond Kam-wing, et al. "Preferred Place of Care and Death Among the Terminally Ill: Asian Perspectives and Implications for Hong Kong." Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population, edited by Ben Fong, et al., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 277-293. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch015

APA

Woo, R. K., Kwok, A. O., & Tse, D. M. (2018). Preferred Place of Care and Death Among the Terminally Ill: Asian Perspectives and Implications for Hong Kong. In B. Fong, A. Ng, & P. Yuen (Eds.), Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population (pp. 277-293). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch015

Chicago

Woo, Raymond Kam-wing, Annie Oi Ling Kwok, and Doris Man Wah Tse. "Preferred Place of Care and Death Among the Terminally Ill: Asian Perspectives and Implications for Hong Kong." In Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population, edited by Ben Fong, Artie Ng, and Peter Yuen, 277-293. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch015

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Abstract

The research on patients' preferred place of care and death has received increasing attention in recent decades. In palliative care, one of the main goals is to facilitate patients to stay in their preferred place of care, and to die in the place of their choice. Although ‘home' is often quoted as the most preferred place of care and death among the terminally-ill in other places, local studies suggested otherwise. In Hong Kong, death is highly institutionalized with the vast majority of deaths occurring in public hospitals. Local culture, health care system and its provision and accessibility, presence of public health care policy on palliative care and care for the terminally-ill are among the factors affecting patients' preferred and actual place of care and death. This chapter is going to provide an overview of the recent studies and to discuss the topic from the Asian perspectives, and to highlight on the debates on the related policies.

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