Background: Managing medications is a complex responsibility of family caregivers caring
for end-of-life patients. This study characterizes caregivers with and without formal/informal …

Objective: To explore factors that influence how informal caregivers manage medications as
part of caring for hospice patients. Methods: Semistructured, open-ended interviews were …

Background: Hospice providers need to ensure that informal, unpaid caregivers can safely
manage medications to alleviate pain and distressing symptoms in patients near the end of …

CONTEXT: Managing and administering medications to relieve pain and symptoms are
common, important responsibilities for informal caregivers of patients receiving end-of-life …

Informal caregivers are important in enabling palliative care patients to die at home,
including their role in managing medications. Often these patients are taking multiple …

Objectives To propose a theoretical construct of family caregiver skills in effective medication
management for home hospice patients. Methods Semistructured face-to-face interviews …

Context Increased life expectancy, technical advances in treatment and symptom control,
and the extension of palliative care in community settings not only lengthen life but also …

Background More effective ways of managing symptoms of chronic and terminal illness
enable patients to be cared for, and to die, at home. This requires patients and family …

Objectives: Hospice providers often work with nursing home providers or with family
caregivers to deliver medication services aimed at alleviating suffering in patients with life …

Abstract Context Family caregivers (FCGs) are often at the frontline of symptom
management for patients with advanced illness in home hospice. FCGs' cognitive, social …