Background Much of what we understand about the design of healthcare systems to support
care of the dying comes from our experiences with providing palliative care for dying cancer …

Objectives To examine access to palliative care between different disease trajectories and
compare to other geographic areas. Design A retrospective population-based decedent …

Background Since most patients prefer out-of-hospital death, place of death can be
considered an indicator of end-of-life care quality. The study of trends in place of death is …

Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ongoing challenges to optimal
supportive end-of-life care for adults living in long-term care (LTC) facilities. A supportive …

Background: The quality of care provided to dying long-term care (LTC) residents is often
inadequate, which may be due to the lack of formal training that LTC staff receive in …

Background The context of care provided in long‐term care homes is changing, as an
increasing number of older adults are entering long‐term care with advance stages of illness …

This study aims to explore in depth the needs, current knowledge, and attitudes of all ranks
of old age home staff. A large-scale qualitative study with 13 semistructured focus groups …

Background End-of-life conversations are rarely initiated by care staff in long-term care
facilities. A possible explanation is care staff's lack of self-efficacy in such conversations …

CONTEXT: The rate of health care and palliative care utilization for patients with
schizophrenia near the end-of-life is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE: Compare rate of …

Background Decisions regarding the hospitalisation of nursing home residents may present
a difficult dilemma for GPs. There are pressures to admit very frail patients with …