The chapter on end-of-life care focuses on important aspects of caring for families of dying
ICU patients. Mainly, this chapter discusses the symptom burden experienced by ICU …

Families of older adults are intricately involved in the end-of-life decision-making process for
a family member with a serious illness in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. However …

Experiencing the end of life of a family member in the intensive care unit is clearly difficult.
An important role of critical care nurses is to help family members through this challenging …

Much of the literature for end of life in the intensive care unit focuses on patients and their
treatment. Families are usually present and should be a focus, as well as a resource, in end …

Background: Helping families make end-of-life care decisions can be challenging for health
care providers in an intensive care unit (ICU). Family meetings facilitated by palliative care …

Because of their conditions, intensive care unit (ICU) patients are frequently unable to
communicate their needs and desires at the end of their lives. Family members are often …

Background A family-centred approach to care can aid family coping at the end of life in
critical care. Yet little is known about how families' preferences for involvement in care …

Despite advances in critical care medicine, decisions and communications about
withholding or withdrawing lifesustaining interventions are routine for intensive care unit …

This article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating how critical care nurses
include families in end-of-life care. The major theme,''Supporting the Families' Journey …

Aim To synthesize qualitative studies of patients' families' experiences and perceptions of
end‐of‐life care in the intensive care unit when life‐sustaining treatments are withdrawn …