Background: Nursing homes are becoming a common site where delivering end-of-life care
for older adults. They often represent the junction between the curative and the palliative …

Objective End-of-life communication has been largely recognized to promote quality end-of-
life care in nursing home (NHs) by increasing residents' likelihood of receiving comfort …

Background With a growing nursing home population suffering from chronic progressive
illnesses and evolving patterns of comorbidities, end‐of‐life communication takes on a …

Background: Clear communication about a person's poor prognosis and limited treatment
choices improves the quality of end-of-life care. Aims: To investigate how end-of-life …

Background Long term care facilities are important environments for the delivery of palliative
care, which includes end of life care. Despite this, staff may feel this care focus is separate to …

Background Increasing age is accompanied by a greater need for medical decisions, due in
part to age‐related increases in chronic disease and disability. In later life, medical …

Most of the care in nursing homes is palliative in nature, as it is the oldest and the frailest
people who live in nursing homes. The aim of this study was to explore next of kin's …

Background: Although family-centered communication about end-of-life care has been
recognized to promote palliative-oriented care in nursing home (NH), how this …

The objective of this systematic literature review is to identify patients', carers' and health
professionals' reported perspectives of end-of-life care services for severe chronic …

Background The supportive hospice aged residential exchange (SHARE) is a new model of
palliative care education that has been designed for residential aged care. The goal of …