Difficulties for Homecare Nurses in Providing Nutritional Support to Terminally Ill Clients with Cancer at Home

The purpose of this study was to clarify the difficulties that homecare nurses face in practicing nutritional support for terminally ill clients with cancer at home. Semi-structured interviews were conducted 12 working area A Osaka Prefecture, and analysis using Krippendorff content analysis. As a result, found that, as providing receiving treatment home, already had “difficulties dietary according their ever-changing medical conditions” “deal conflicts who cannot tell families they eat”. While support, also must take into consideration “the family members feel frustrated by client’s inability eat” anguish arises between client family”. It revealed want provide better nursing care sharing information multi-professionals, mainly dietitians terminal while recognize difficulty complicated community services “coordinating professionals an advocate”.