Life review in end of life care : a practitioner’s perspective

Sas, Corina and Ren, Shuang and Coman, Alina and Clinch, Sarah and Davies, Nigel Andrew Justin (2016) Life review in end of life care : a practitioner’s perspective. In: CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems :. ACM, New York, pp. 2947-2953. ISBN 9781450340823

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Abstract

This paper presents an exploratory study of life review as a therapeutic technique performed in the end of life care. We describe interviews with four therapists practicing life review and discuss initial findings showing the benefits of closure and empowerment for patients’ emotional wellbeing. Findings also highlight the importance of reflective remembering in life review, together with the challenge of recalling details of significant life events, and of their emotional processing. Another finding relates to the current limited use of technology for end of life review, with an emphasis of printed photos, music and significant objects for supporting recall of key events. Our findings led to design implications for supporting the construction of life review and the recording of life review process. We conclude with a discussion of the challenges of life review in end of life care and of the need to explore such digital tools to support it.

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© The Authors, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892491
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19 Apr 2016 10:26
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