Background Advance care planning (ACP) involves important decision making about future
medical needs. The high-volume and disparate nature of ACP research makes it difficult to …

Objectives There is growing evidence of the potential effectiveness of advance care
planning. Yet important knowledge gaps remain regarding the preconditions for successful …

Background Residents of nursing care homes for older people are highly likely to die there,
making these places where palliative care is needed. Objectives The primary objective was …

Background Although older people are increasingly cared for in nursing homes towards the
end of life, there is a dearth of research exploring the views of residents. There are however …

Aims and objectives To investigate the prevalence of physical and emotional symptoms and
the associations between symptoms and meaning‐in‐life in a cognitively intact nursing …

Importance High-quality care at the end of life supports freedom from pain and other
potentially burdensome symptoms. Lowering symptom burden at the end of life is an urgent …

Objective: Our aim was to explore the presence of symptoms, symptom relief, and other key
aspects of palliative care during the final week of life among older people residing in nursing …

Background: The quality of care provided to dying long-term care (LTC) residents is often
inadequate, which may be due to the lack of formal training that LTC staff receive in …

Objective: To describe patterns in the use of hospital emergency departments in the last year
of life by people who died with dementia and whether this was modified by use of community …

BACKGROUND: Anemia status is a typical feature of the “frailty syndrome” of elderly
subjects. Increasing evidences suggest that low hemoglobin concentration is common in …