BACKGROUND Maintaining dignity is an important element of end-of-life care and also of the care given in nursing homes. Factors influencing personal dignity have been studied from both nursing home residents' and staff's perspective. Little is however known about the way nursing home staff perceive and promote the personal dignity of individual residents in daily practice, or about staff's expe...

Maintaining dignity and respect is among patients' most fundamental rights. The importance of patient dignity, the status quo, patients' needs, and a shortage of survey studies in this area were the underlying incentives for conducting this study. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which data were collected through Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI). The questionnaire was completed by...

Jonathan Mann asserted that violations of dignity serve as underlying factors that negatively impact the health of individuals. He called for the public health community to develop an empirical understanding of ill health through the fundamental concept of dignity. This article explores definitions of dignity and presents a model to demonstrate how violations of dignity may cause chronic stress...

In this review of Leon Kass’s Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword’s Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for a theory of dignity as a basis for bioethics research. I argue that dignity theories are worth exploring in more detail, but that research needs to consider both ‘‘antitheory’’ accounts of the language of bioethics...

The human dignity of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an important issue, because of patients' dependence upon caregivers, and because it impacts all aspects of their quality of life (QOL). Therefore, understanding and improving the status of dignity among these patients is of great importance. This study aimed to determine the status of dignity in patients with CVD admitted to car...

Abstract Dignity is a very prominent concept in human rights instruments, particular constitutions. It also that has many critics, including those who argue it useless ethical debates. How useful or not dignity can be artificial intelligence (AI) ethics discussions the question of this chapter. Is conversation stopper, help explain even resolve some dilemmas related to AI? The three cases chapt...

Some people may argue that dignity is a western concept, and may not apply to Chinese populations. Zhai and Chan interviewed Chinese elderly persons, family members, and staff of long term care facilities in Beijing and Hong Kong respectively, on what the word ‘dignity’ means to them. All respondents thought that the concept of dignity was important. Respect for autonomy was important in preser...

BACKGROUND human dignity is discussed in almost all public debates on the care of the dying, as well as in international policies for health and social care of older people. Because nursing homes are gaining importance as places where residents live out their lives in modern western societies and since there is evidence that end-of-life care in nursing homes lacks quality, there is a growing di...

CONTEXT More people are surviving into old age, and chronic diseases tend to become more common with age. Ill health and disability can lead to concerns about loss of personal dignity. OBJECTIVES To investigate whether health status affects the perceptions of factors influencing personal dignity at the end of life, and the relationship between those perceptions and sociodemographic characteri...

Background While knowledge on factors affecting personal dignity of patients nearing death is quite substantial, far less is known about how patients living with a serious disease understand dignity. Objective To develop a conceptual model of dignity that illuminates the process by which serious illness can undermine patients’ dignity, and that is applicable to a wide patient population. Design...