COVID-19 mortality disproportionally affects nursing homes, creating enormous pressures to
deliver high-quality end-of-life care. Comprehensive palliative care should be an explicit part …

Background Older people in long-term care facilities face clinical uncertainty and
unpredictable decline. Advance care planning enables older people to identify preferences …

Objectives To examine the rate and characteristics of hospitalisation in the last month of life
and place of death among nursing home residents and to identify related care processes …

In this issue of Age and Ageing, Reilev et al. report a prospective cohort study of more than
5,000 newly admitted nursing home residents in Denmark [1]. This study covered the entire …

High-quality end-of-life communication between healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients
and/or their family caregivers (FCs) improves quality of life and reduces non-beneficial care …

Although advance care planning (ACP) is highly relevant for nursing home residents, its
uptake in nursing homes is low. To meet the need for context-specific ACP tools to support …

The end-of-life context is imbued with emotions, with death and dying transforming everyday
places, like long-term care facilities, into entirely new emotional topographies that can evoke …

Background: Despite its association with patient safety, few studies on missed nursing care
have been conducted in nursing homes. We aimed to describe individual and environmental …

Even though many older people will live longer in good health, many will also be confronted
with frailty, multi-morbidity, cognitive decline, disability and serious illnesses in the last years …

Objectives To estimate transition times from dementia diagnosis to nursing-home (NH)
admission or death and to examine whether sex, education, marital status, level of cognitive …