Background: The ability of health care clinicians to offer a palliative approach to care to their
patients with progressive, life-limiting illness has become critical as demand for these …

Background Few studies have focused on how older persons living in nursing homes
perceive their last period of life. Furthermore, previous research on older persons' …

Nursing homes are often places where older persons “come to die.” Despite this, death and
dying are seldom articulated or talked about. The aim of this study was to explore assistant …

Background The needs of care based on palliative principles are stressed for all people with
progressive and/or life-limiting conditions, regardless of age and the place in which care is …

Background The goals of palliative care are to relieve suffering and promote quality of life.
Palliative care for older persons has been less prioritised than palliative care for younger …

Background Nursing home residents in Sweden are old, frail and usually have multiple
morbidities which often make dying a prolonged suffering. It has been found that older …

Aim To assess the quality of life in frail older persons (65+ years) living in nursing homes
and to examine differences between quality of life perceptions among different gender and …

Access to high‐quality and safe evidence‐based palliative care (PC) is important to ensure
good end‐of‐life care for older people in residential aged care homes (RACHs). However …

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 …

Aims To evaluate a training program that supports community-based service staff in
implementing aging-in-place and end-of-life care programs. Background Globally, as the …