Empowerment subthemes with illustrative quotations
| Empowerment subthemes | Valence | Participant quotations |
|---|---|---|
| Sense of personal control | + | I am conscious that things really need to be put in some sort of order, and this was just another… document that helped tie up everything together. |
| − | Well what's the good of it? [Doctors] just do what they like. | |
| Access to doctor | + | [We] could discuss it with [local doctor] when he comes in one day. He's a friend of ours who's a doctor. |
| − | … but once you come here [RACF] you got no choice what doctor you get… and the one that was here… said I will get the other doctor… to print [AHD] out and she said she'll get him to print it out… You know so it just hasn't arrived. | |
| Support from doctor | + | I must say that when I discussed it with my doctor, he thought it was a really top thing to do, he was very, very supportive of doing it… |
| − | …we often talked about it because I've heard there's a living will and… we asked the doctor once and he said as a joke “have another wine at night and… enjoy life”. | |
| Support from family | + | [my family] were all for me doing [an AHD]. They said ‘Righto, you go ahead and do as you please’. |
| − | I don't want to make my family miserable by making a decision [to complete an AHD]. I mean I'm quite willing to suffer a little more if my family's happy about that. |
Quotations illustrate the positive and negative valence of each subtheme (contributing to empowerment or disempowerment, respectively).
AHD, advance health directive; RACF, residential aged care facilities.