Corr Charles A
Department of Philosophical Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Lacey, WA, USA.
Omega (Westport). 2025 Apr 25:302228251338630. doi: 10.1177/00302228251338630.
This article offers a critical reflection on the symbolic implications of the name that has been chosen to represent the new organization resulting from the merger of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). That new organization is now called the National Alliance for Care at Home. The primary goals of this article are to educate, support, and advocate for home care, hospice care, and palliative care, and to illustrate how the new name for the National Alliance fails to do so. This reflection comes from a person who has enjoyed a long career of almost 50 years in studying, teaching, and writing about hospice and palliative care, as a volunteer with multiple hospice organizations, and in serving for the past 20 years as Senior Editor of NHPCO's (now the Alliance's)
本文对为代表由全国居家护理与临终关怀协会（NAHC）与全国临终关怀与姑息治疗组织（NHPCO）合并而成的新组织所选定的名称的象征意义进行了批判性反思。那个新组织现在名为全国居家护理联盟。本文的主要目标是对居家护理、临终关怀护理和姑息治疗进行教育、支持和倡导，并说明全国居家护理联盟的新名称未能做到这一点。这一反思来自一个人，他在研究、教学和撰写临终关怀与姑息治疗方面拥有近50年的漫长职业生涯，曾作为多个临终关怀组织的志愿者，并在过去20年中担任NHPCO（现为联盟）的高级编辑。
