Palliative and hospice care aims to improve quality of life of patients' relatives, but still little is
known about their specific problems and needs. We present a comprehensive literature …

CONTEXT: Palliative care services are required to support patients who have advanced, life-
threatening, noncurable disease, and their family caregivers. Comprehensive psychological …

The quality of life of the person confronting the end stages of their life may be severely
compromised without the support of family caregivers. Indeed, most people requiring …

Aim. To review systematically research conducted during the past five years focusing on the
relatives' situation and needs in end‐of‐life care. Background and aim. That relatives make …

Background: Support for families during a person's advanced disease and also into the
bereavement period is a major component of palliative care. However, because of the gaps …

Background and purpose: Reviews of the literature have consistently highlighted significant
gaps with regard to research associated with family caregivers within the context of palliative …

Background Being a family carer to a patient nearing the end of their life is a challenging
and confronting experience. Studies show that caregiving can have negative consequences …

The changing context of palliative care over the last decade highlights the importance of
recent research on home-based family caregiving at the end of life. This article reports on a …

Informal family caregivers provide care in a variety of situations, including care for patients
receiving active curative treatment for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, for …

Support for family caregivers is a core function of palliative care. However, there is a lack of
consistency in the way needs are assessed, few longitudinal studies to examine the impact …