Abstract Background and Purpose: The main goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of
life for people who are at the end-of-life phase. However, investigations on the awareness of …

Background This study is a descriptive correlation survey conducted to understand the effect
of attitudes toward death, hospice palliative care perception, and knowledge on homecare …

Purpose: The hospice movement began about 30 years ago in Korea. However, basic
studies have seldom been conducted about the general public's knowledge concerning …

Purpose: To describe characteristics, attitudes, and communications of nurses regarding
hospice and caring for terminally ill patients. Design: A cross‐sectional study of randomly …

Background The present study aimed to explore the attitude and knowledge toward hospice
palliative care among medical caregivers in Taiwan. Methods A cross-sectional …

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and attitude toward
hospice palliative care (HPC) among the elderly, defined as 65 years of age and older, living …

Objectives: The current study sought to understand the differences hospice nurses
perceived in caring for older adult patients who utilize hospice for longer and shorter …

Objective: The goal of this study is to assess perceptions about hospice among patients with
metastatic cancer and their caregivers (ie, family and/or friends). Design and Setting: We …

It is expected that the American geriatric population will have an increased need for hospice
and palliative care services over the next few decades. We surveyed 187 community …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine nursing students' attitude toward death
and perception on hospice care. Methods: The survey was performed on 103 nursing …