Background: Little is known about optimal palliative and end-of-life care for American
Indians and Alaska Natives (AIs/ANs). Methods: We searched MEDLINE, the Cochrane …

In this article, the authors highlight the complex issues associated with providing end-of-life
and palliative care services to people who make up the diverse cultural groups of the Pacific …

Background: Life-limiting illness plagues Native Americans, yet access to palliative and end-
of-life care, including hospice care, is severely limited. Aim: This study aimed to explore …

The present chapter discusses end of life care issues that are important to Asian Americans.
This chapter takes on the challenge of identifying some cross-cutting themes in the growing …

This paper describes the development and implementation of a community-based palliative
care program in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario. Six Nations innovative …

Background: In 1997, the Institute of Medicine called for reform, improved quality and
expanded research in end-of-life care. Yet little empirical information about preferences of …

Cara Bablitz MD CCFP (PC) Arezoo Ahnadzadeh Sarah Burton MacLeod MD CCFP (PC)
Palliative care is an approach to improving the quality of life for patients with life-threatening …

Background Indigenous palliative persons and their families often have different values,
spiritual traditions, and practices from Western culture and Canadian health systems …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To understand cross-cultural hospital-based end-of-life care from
the perspective of bereaved First Nations family members. DESIGN Phenomenologic …

Objective (s) LGBTQI+ disparities in hospice and palliative care have been vastly
underrecognized in medical practice and research. This may result in LGBTQI+ community …