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: Significant structural and normative pressures privilege the ideal of dying at
home in Canada. At the same time, the social complexities and meanings associated with …

Providing a rural example of the interconnection between aging, emotion, time and place,
this paper explores the intimate experiences of loss as older adults move into long-term care …

Research internationally has revealed a range of medical and health-related issues that
shape care at the end of life for people living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), their …

Context: Interdisciplinary long-term care staff are being challenged with increasing numbers
of resident deaths as well as complex resident and family needs. Studies warn that staff …

ObjectiveAt the end of life, the need for care increases. Yet, for structurally vulnerable
populations (ie, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, racism, criminalization of …

Home is frequently idealised as the preferred location for end‐of‐life care, while in‐patient
hospital care is viewed with suspicion and fear. Yet many people with a terminal illness …

This chapter focuses on the concept of therapeutic landscapes to examine how providing
palliative and end-of-life care in the home affects caregivers' experience and meaning of …

For long-term care (LTC) home staff who work directly with residents, death, dying, and grief
are day-to-day experiences in their working life. However, staff are often overlooked for grief …

Background: In Canada, most people die in hospital on acute medical units. Research
conducted in such units has shown that dying patients often experience uncontrolled …