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Palliative care should be provided, irrespective of setting to all patients facing a life-threatening illness and to their families. The situation and needs of older people differ from those of younger people since they often have several co-existing diseases and health complaints. This implies an extensive need for care and for longer periods of palliative care. The main providers of palliative care for older people are nurse assistants, who are also those with the shortest education.

The aim of this study was to illuminate nurse assistants’ experience of palliative care for older people in residential care.

The study had an explorative, descriptive design.

Thirteen residential care units in three different districts in a large city in southern Sweden.

Twenty-five nurse assistants selected to represent variations in age, gender workplace and work experience.

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