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.
Author
Eva Soom Ammann

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.