Background Patients with incurable cancer face complex medical decisions. Their family
caregivers play a prominent role in shared decision making processes, but we lack insights …

Abstract Purpose of Review The family plays a significant role in end-of-life care and
decision-making with advanced cancer patients. This non-systematic review aims to …

Background Family members are important companions of severely ill patients with cancer.
However, studies about the desirability and difficulties of integrating relatives in the decision …

Background Several studies have characterized the experiences of family members caring
for patients undergoing chemotherapy; however, information about the experiences of older …

Background The supporting role of caregivers is crucial to cancer patients' care and well‐
being. Periods of inpatient hospital treatment are common in the cancer trajectory. There is …

Goals of work Discussing end-of-life issues is of key importance to terminally ill cancer
patients and their families, and a challenging topic for both health professionals and …

Objectives During serious illness, open communication with caregivers can ensure high-
quality care. Without end-of-life communication, caregivers may become surrogates and …

Background Quality of life is an important concept which is subjective and personal; what is
an acceptable quality of life to one may be'worse than death'to another. The objective of this …

Background Decision-making in palliative care usually involves both patients and family
caregivers. However, how concordance and discordance in decision-making manifest and …

Objective: Because caregiving to an adult with cancer is a dynamic process, a caregiver's
perceived burden and psychosocial concerns may be different at different phases of the …