Aims and objectives To explore nurses' views regarding implementing advance care
planning for older people. Background Advance care planning is recommended as a way for …

Age differences in decision-making are of theoretical interest and have important practical
implications, but relevant lines of work are distributed across multiple disciplines and often …

The law has traditionally responded to cognitive disability by authorizing surrogate decision-
makers to make decisions on behalf of disabled individuals. However, supported decision …

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

As a clinician involved in caring for patients with serious illness, one frequently is tasked with
helping patients and their families navigate various points of the patient's illness trajectory …

Background: Studies have indicated that family members or health professionals may not
know or predict their older relatives' or patients' health preferences. Although advance care …

Decisions to prolong or shorten life in fatal diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are
strongly influenced by healthy individuals, such as caregivers and physicians. Furthermore …

Context Cancer caregivers have important roles in delivering practical, emotional, and end-
of-life support to patients; however, they express multiple unmet needs, particularly …

Objectives The aim of this study was to determine if a gynecologic cancer patient's comfort
level discussing end-of-life care issues with her caregivers is related to her death anxiety …

Background: Motor neuron disease is a fatal disease, characterised by progressive loss of
motor function, often associated with cognitive deterioration and, in some, the development …