Anne Arber

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on what it means to have a dual identity as a practitioner and a researcher within an ethnographic research study in the context of a hospice, and discuss moments when they experienced the tension between the roles of researcher and practitioner during fieldwork.

TL;DR: Care of women needs strategies that are integrated in a palliative, holistic, empathic approach as the women and their carers report a lack of information and advice about how to manage the wound as well as the physical limitations and psychosocial consequences of struggling to maintain the boundedness of the body.

TL;DR: There is a need to raise the awareness of existing wound management specialists in the support of cancer patients and strategies need to be explored to help understand the diverse range of wound problems including physical and psychological components.

TL;DR: For some patients, referral to specialist palliative care services occur late in the illness trajectory, which means that patients and carers may not be able to access the full range of supportive care services available.