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U of S Researchers Produce Video about Hope in Palliative
Care Patients
 The University of Saskatchewan has launched a new video, Living
with Hope, with the goal of fostering hope among palliative
care patients and their caregivers.
The video, shown at a special screening September 9, is based
on a research study conducted in the Sunrise Health Region
and contains footage taken from interviews with palliative
care patients and their families.
“In this video, we see palliative patients, their families
and health care professionals describing the experience of
hope,” says Wendy Duggleby, an associate professor in
nursing.
“We learn how people refocus their hope at the end of
life. When someone is no longer focusing on a cure, they might
focus on other things – a good future for their loved
ones, on living their remaining days to the fullest, on not
suffering and having a peaceful death. The fact is that hope
is still there, it never goes away.”
 The Living with Hope video will now become part of a current
study where it will be used as one of several tools for encouraging
hope in terminally ill patients receiving palliative care.
The study is being undertaken by Wendy Duggleby, Karen Wright,
Lesley Degner and Allison Williams, and is funded through the
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.
The research team is also studying hope in family caregivers,
and will soon be looking at the experience of hope among health
professionals who care for palliative patients.
If you wish to purchase a copy of the video ($29.95) please
contact the University of Saskatchewan Division of Media and
Technology at 966-4261.
Photos from the launch party
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Karen Wright |
Wendy Duggleby |
Lorraine Holtslander |
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