Experiencing Loneliness as a Source of Existential Suffering during Alzheimer’s Disease
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The relief of existential suffering.
Advanced and progressive illnesses bring existential suffering to patients as an inevitable consequence of the disease and its treatment. Physicians need a typology of existential distress to aid its recognition and improved management. The major forms of existential challenge include (1) death anxiety, (2) loss and change, (3) freedom with choice or loss of control, (4) dignity of the self, (5...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2450-4491
DOI: 10.18778/2450-4491.10.14