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Eva Soom Ammann

Eva Soom Ammann is a social anthropologist, lecturer in Nursing Research and head of the Innovation Field ‘Psychosocial Health’ at the Health Department of Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, and senior researcher associated to the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on ageing, diversity & inequality, long- term care, and dying & death.

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End-of-life care in nursing homes: Allowing for self-determined dying in a ‘total social institution’

by Eva Soom Ammann January 24, 2019

by Eva Soom Ammann January 24, 2019

In the last days of life, residents are most often not in a position to express their will, and nurses interpret minimal bodily signs as expressions.

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