Background Involving nursing home patients and their relatives in end-of-life care
conversations and treatment decisions has recently gained increased importance in several …

Background With a growing nursing home population suffering from chronic progressive
illnesses and evolving patterns of comorbidities, end‐of‐life communication takes on a …

Aim and objective. The aim of this article is to report a study exploring experiences of
relatives who have been present immediately prior to and after the death (in the last 72 …

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 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) …

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 …

Background This paper focuses on communication between hospital staff and family carers
of patients dying on acute hospital wards, with an emphasis on the family carers' …

Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing
competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff's protection of …

Many countries encounter a demographic change where the number of elderly people will
increase. As a result, the number of very old people needing care, services and medical …

Purpose The aim of this study is to examine family members' experiences of end-of-life
decision-making processes in Norwegian intensive care units (ICUs) to ascertain the degree …