Research into the burden of illness has focused predominantly on family caregivers, with
little consideration of the other side of the caregiving relationship-care recipients' …

Despite documented preferences for home death, the majority of deaths from terminal illness
occur in hospital. To better understand variation in place of death, we conducted a …

ContextA clear understanding of what patients, families, and health care practitioners view
as important at the end of life is integral to the success of improving care of dying patients …

This paper profiles Medicare beneficiaries' costs for care in the last year of life. About one-
quarter of Medicare outlays are for the last year of life, unchanged from twenty years ago …

Objectives: To explore the attitudes of older people towards home as a place of care when
dying. Design: A two-phase qualitative study using focus groups and semi-structured …

End-of-life care strives to honor terminally ill patients' preferences regarding the way of
dying. Scholars defined one domain of quality of dying and death as dying at the place of …

Objectives. Recent public attention has focused on quality of care for the dying. Where one
dies is an important individual and public health concern. Materials and methods. The 1993 …

Background Patients with severe COPD or chronic heart failure (CHF) are often confronted
with decisions concerning life-sustaining treatments. The aim of this prospective …

As a society and as individuals, we have come to recognize ourselves as 'death‐denying', a
self‐characterisation particularly prominent in palliative care discourse and practice. As part …

The review aims to discuss current concepts in advance care planning (ACP) for patients
with COPD, and to provide a narrative review of recent trends in ACP and end‐of‐life care …