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Question: Up until her diagnosis, Jackie worked part-time as a teacher's aide in her granddaughters' elementary school; however, she stopped working six months ago due to feeling exhausted by her chemotherapy. As she prepares to enter hospice care with only months to live, Jackie feels full of despair about her lack of mobility and independence. As she reflects on her life, Jackie is proud that she raised a good daughter and that she left a dysfunctional marriage; however, she feels some degree of regret for not having given back to society in a meaningful way. Lastly, although she practices Buddhism, Jackie is now questioning the idea that death leads to rebirth. As Jackie increasingly believes in the finality of death, she views life as short, fleeting, precious, and something that no one should ever take for granted.
As a valued member of the multidisciplinary health care team, Jamie is on a mission to apply the following theories, models, and concepts to support Jackie and her daughter throughout Jackie's end-of-life experience: Kübler-Ross's stages of grief, Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, and the Model of Transcultural Health and Cultural Competence (Papadopoulos, Tilki, & Taylor, 1998).