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TY - JOUR
T1 - Social relationships and community end of life care in Hong Kong
T2 - a three-stage model of social capital development
AU - Chan, Wing-Sun
AU - Payne, Sheila
AU - Funk, Laura
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mortality on 21/09/2022, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13576275.2022.2126934
PY - 2024/1/2
Y1 - 2024/1/2
N2 - End-of-life (EOL) care is a crucial public health issue in Hong Kong, and one in which the community social service sector has become increasingly involved, as healthcare policy in the city shifts towards greater emphasis on social relationships in non-medical forms of EOL care. This study used abductive grounded theory methodology to illustrate the dynamics and mechanisms involved in social relationships between dying people (and their families), volunteers, and professionals in community-based social service agencies in Hong Kong. The aims are a) to understand how social relationships influence the experiences of dying people and their families, and b) to engage theoretically with concepts of social capital and compassionate communities to explicate the dynamic and relational processes involved in this phenomenon. Fourteen in-depth interviews with practitioners and two service users affiliated with two community-based EOL care agencies in Hong Kong were conducted. Findings inform a parsimonious three-stage model of social capital development in which relationships between service agency workers and families address a key precondition of social capital through establishing trust, facilitating the accessibility of social capital through cultivating mutuality, and mobilising social capital through collaborating in community EOL care. These processes in turn mitigate community detachment in the EOL experience.
AB - End-of-life (EOL) care is a crucial public health issue in Hong Kong, and one in which the community social service sector has become increasingly involved, as healthcare policy in the city shifts towards greater emphasis on social relationships in non-medical forms of EOL care. This study used abductive grounded theory methodology to illustrate the dynamics and mechanisms involved in social relationships between dying people (and their families), volunteers, and professionals in community-based social service agencies in Hong Kong. The aims are a) to understand how social relationships influence the experiences of dying people and their families, and b) to engage theoretically with concepts of social capital and compassionate communities to explicate the dynamic and relational processes involved in this phenomenon. Fourteen in-depth interviews with practitioners and two service users affiliated with two community-based EOL care agencies in Hong Kong were conducted. Findings inform a parsimonious three-stage model of social capital development in which relationships between service agency workers and families address a key precondition of social capital through establishing trust, facilitating the accessibility of social capital through cultivating mutuality, and mobilising social capital through collaborating in community EOL care. These processes in turn mitigate community detachment in the EOL experience.
KW - Social relationship
KW - community end-of-life-care
KW - compassionate communities
KW - dynamical mechanisms
KW - social capital
U2 - 10.1080/13576275.2022.2126934
DO - 10.1080/13576275.2022.2126934
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 159
EP - 175
JO - Mortality
JF - Mortality
SN - 1357-6275
IS - 1
ER -