Aims and objectives To explore specific cultural and religious beliefs and values concerning
death and dying, truth telling, and advance care planning, and the preferences for end‐of …

Anticipatory decision making about end-of-life care is predominantly a North American
concept. Researchers investigated four themes: advance directives, life support …

Background End-of-life care preferences are potentially due to individual choice and feature
variation due to culture and beliefs. This study aims to examine end-of-life care preferences …

Introduction Increasing longevity means more people will be dying in very old age, but little
is known about the preferences of the 'oldest old'regarding their care at the end of life. Aims …

CONTEXT: Understanding preferences for end-of-life care is important for planning and
improving services that provide such care. However, little is known about the perspective of …

Background: This study explored whether or not, and how, terminally ill patients from
ethnically diverse backgrounds and their family caregivers think ahead about deterioration …

BACKGROUND Although end-of-life care preferences vary across racial/ethnic groups, little
is known about how cultural values affect end-of-life care preferences among South Asian …

A growing body of literature suggests that diverse attitudes toward the end of life exist across
and within ethnic minority groups. This focus‐group pilot study examined social and cultural …

Purpose: To evaluate the association between provider religion and religiosity and
consensus about end-of-life care and explore if geographical and institutional factors …

In this discussion paper we consider the influence of ethnicity, religiosity, spirituality and
health literacy on Advance Care Planning for older people. Older people from cultural and …