@article{ART003093338},
author={Yeung Ja Yang},
title={Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany},
journal={인문논총 },
issn={2005-6222},
year={2024},
volume={64},
pages={257-290},
doi={10.33638/JHS.64.11}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yeung Ja Yang
TI - Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany
JO - 인문논총
PY - 2024
VL - 64
IS - null
PB - Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
SP - 257
EP - 290
SN - 2005-6222
AB - The purpose of this case study is to understand in depth how end-of-life care has been provided in German and Korea, based on the experiences of a Korean hospice care at-home center director in German. Therefore, data was collected by conducting the narrative interview with the center director, which was analyzed using the qualitative interview analyse method. As a result, before and after her emigration(1999), as a nurse, she provided medicalized care in Korea that focused on the birth of life, and in Germany that focused on “curing” and prolonging life, and did not care about end-of-life care. For A, end-of-care was therefore terra incognita. However, after moving to Germany, she experienced a death of her brother in law in Germany(2006) who had been a mentor for her, which sparked her interest in end-of-care and led to a shift in her care practice that transformed end-of-care into Terra Cognita. Since then, A has been working to improve her professionalization of end-of-life-care, and has fought to change the practice from medicalized care to providing end-of-life care. She then moved to a new position as a hospice care at-home center director to focus her life more on end-of-life care, and in her role as a director, she experienced a transformation in which end-of-life care became “life itself” for her. However, unlike in Germany, where end-of-life care has become commonplace with the social and political development, end-of-life care in Korea, where she experienced her mother’s dying and death online, was still perceived as lagging behind life-sustaining treatment. These findings suggest that end-of-life care is not only a matter of personal experience, but also a matter of political and practical experience at the national dimension. Based on these findings, some implications for social welfare in relation to end-of-life care were discussed.
KW - end-of-life care;hospice;palliative care;dignified dying and death;qualitative study
DO - 10.33638/JHS.64.11
ER -
Yeung Ja Yang. (2024). Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany. 인문논총 , 64, 257-290.
Yeung Ja Yang. 2024, "Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany", 인문논총 , vol.64, pp.257-290. Available from: doi:10.33638/JHS.64.11
Yeung Ja Yang "Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany" 인문논총 64 pp.257-290 (2024) : 257.
Yeung Ja Yang. Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany. 2024; 64 257-290. Available from: doi:10.33638/JHS.64.11
Yeung Ja Yang. "Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany" 인문논총 64(2024) : 257-290.doi: 10.33638/JHS.64.11
Yeung Ja Yang. Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany. 인문논총 , 64, 257-290. doi: 10.33638/JHS.64.11
Yeung Ja Yang. Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany. 인문논총 . 2024; 64 257-290. doi: 10.33638/JHS.64.11
Yeung Ja Yang. Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany. 2024; 64 257-290. Available from: doi:10.33638/JHS.64.11
Yeung Ja Yang. "Case Understanding End-of-Life Care Experiences: Focused on the Experiences of a Korean Hospice Care at-Home Center Director in Germany" 인문논총 64(2024) : 257-290.doi: 10.33638/JHS.64.11
