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Spirituality and palliative care: a model of needs
1Palliative Care Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
Palliative Medicine
|June 1, 2000
Abstract:
This paper provides a theoretical model of spiritual needs in palliative care based on a review of the palliative care literature. Three sources of transcendence, the building blocks of spiritual meaning, are identified: the situational, the moral and biographical, and the religious. After areas of transcendence are described and explained, implications for future theory, research and practice are identified.