Terminal home care "Ikigai no Yoake--The real aim of our life"--case report
Funato, T.; Funato, H.; Kato, A.; Matsuoka, Y.; Shibuya, R.; Usui, Y.; Niwa, Y.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 25 Suppl. 4: 579-584
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 9884644 Document Number: 491859
It is difficult to provide home care especially for terminal cancer patients as their physical conditions deteriorate due to the cancer. It is important to enhance the will of home care providers to make this possible. Although a universal method has been worked out, personal and religious beliefs have made it difficult to create an effective method. We would like to introduce our experience in the paper entitled "Ikigai no Yoake" and subtitled "Influence of scientific study of reincarnation on view of life" by Fumihiko Ida of Fukushima University. It has encouraged home care providers and made it possible to provide home care to terminal patients along with benefits.