Background: Clinical practice relies on surrogates to make or help to make treatment
decisions for incapacitated adults; however, the effect of this practice on surrogates has not …

Background: Nursing homes are becoming a common site where delivering end-of-life care
for older adults. They often represent the junction between the curative and the palliative …

Background: Residents living in long-term care facilities are a vulnerable population. For
many residents, a nursing home is their place of death. Palliative care and end-of-life …

Objective To examine health professionals' experiences of and attitudes towards the
provision of chemotherapy to patients with end stage cancer. Design Purposive, qualitative …

Background: Nursing home residents are a vulnerable population. Most of them suffer from
multi-morbidity, while many have cognitive impairment or dementia and need care around …

Background Hospitalized older adults frequently have impaired cognition and must rely on
surrogates to make major medical decisions. Ethical standards for surrogate decision …

Background As part of the research project “End-of-life Communication in Nursing Homes.
Patient Preferences and Participation”, we have studied how Advance Care Planning (ACP) …

Objective Synthesize research about patients' and relatives' expectations and experiences
on how doctors can improve end-of-life care in nursing homes. Methods We systematically …

Background Nursing home residents (NHR) are characterized by increasing frailty,
multimorbidity and care dependency. These conditions result in frequent hospital transfers …

Background Decisions on limiting life-sustaining treatment for patients in the vegetative state
(VS) are emotionally and morally challenging. In Germany, doctors have to discuss, together …