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Palliative care standards and policies recommend that bereavement support be provided to family caregivers, yet uncertainty surrounds whether support currently offered by palliative care services throughout developed countries meets caregiver needs. The public health model of bereavement support, which aligns bereavement support needs with intervention, may address this gap between policy and practice.

The aim was to review the literature to identify bereavement risk assessment measures appropriate for different points in the caring and bereavement trajectories, evaluate their psychometric properties and assess feasibility for use in palliative care.

A scoping review was systematically undertaken following Arksey and O’Malley’s methodological framework.

PsycINFO, CINAHL, PubMed and Cochrane Reviews databases, as well as grey literature including Internet …