Background Serious illness is often characterised by physical/psychological problems,
family support needs, and high healthcare resource use. Hospital‐based specialist palliative …

Grief support changes as more is learned from current grief theory and research. The
authors provide a comprehensive overview of current grief support as it relates to Pediatric …

The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying
should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize …

Aims and objectives The aim was to explore how nurses experience compassionate care for
patients with cancer and family caregivers in different phases of the palliative pathway …

Aims: To determine who provides bereavement support in the community, what sources are
perceived to be the most or least helpful and for what reason, and to identify the empirical …

Objective: To investigate prevalence and predictors of postloss distress, depressive and
anxiety symptoms, and quality of life among bereaved family caregivers of patients with …

Context Many family caregivers are not prepared for the death of their family member or
friend. Palliative care services tend to emphasize the patients' preparation for death rather …

Context People bereaved from COVID-19 report higher levels of grief than people bereaved
from natural causes. The full impact of this onslaught of grief will not be known for some time …

Purpose This study aimed to investigate the supportive care needs of family caregivers
(FCs) of advanced cancer patients and their support service use at the beginning of …

Background: There is a dearth of national and international data on the impact of social
support on physical, mental, and financial outcomes following bereavement. Methods: We …