Background: Individuals who are homeless may encounter various barriers to obtaining
quality end-of-life (EOL) care, including access barriers, multiple sources of discrimination …

Background Clarifying what matters most informs current care planning for adults with
multiple comorbidities. We describe how adults aged 55+ rate what matters most and …

Background End-of-life decision-making tools are used to establish a shared understanding
among patients, families and healthcare providers about medical treatment and goals of …

CONTEXT: Patients from minority ethnic groups experience lower rates of referrals to end-of-
life (EoL) care services, higher levels of dissatisfaction with services, and perceive some …

Background/Objectives: Advance care planning (ACP) is an iterative, complex, and dynamic
process of discussion, decision-making, and documentation about end-of-life care. The …

It is expected that the American geriatric population will have an increased need for hospice
and palliative care services over the next few decades. We surveyed 187 community …

Preference for long-term care (LTC) location among community-dwelling elders was
assessed using short-and long-term disability scenarios (N= 537). Using Wilcoxon rank sum …

Objective: The study objective was to empirically identify barriers reported by multiethnic
patients and families in receiving high-quality end-of-life care (EOLC). Methods: This cross …

Background: Differences in end-of-life (EOL) care preferences (eg, location of death, use of
life-sustaining treatments, openness to hastening death, etc) based on hypothetical death …

Background Structurally marginalized groups experience disproportionately low rates of
advance care planning (ACP). To improve equitable patient-centered end-of-life care, we …