Background: Effective communication between healthcare professionals and relatives of
patients approaching the end-of-life is vital to ensure patients have a 'good death'. To …

Increasing evidence demonstrates the benefits of early end-of-life care discussions with
patients with life-threatening illness and their families. However, these conversations often …

Background: Advance care planning is seen as an important strategy to improve end-of-life
communication and the quality of life of patients and their relatives. However, the frequency …

Background: Family caregiving is common globally, but when a family member needs
palliative and end-of-life care, this requires knowledge and expertise in dealing with …

Background Conversation and discourse analytic research has yielded important evidence
about skills needed for effective, sensitive communication with patients about illness …

Context Advance care planning (ACP) is essential to elicit goals, values, and preferences of
care in older adults with serious illness and on trajectories of frailty. An exploration of ACP …

Objective To explore generalist palliative care providers' experiences of emotional labour
when undertaking conversations around palliative and end-of-life care with patients and …

Context As most end-of-life care is provided by health care providers who are generalists
rather than specialists in palliative care, effective communication skills training for …

Palliative care is patient-and family-centered care that enhances quality of life throughout
the illness trajectory and can ease the symptoms, discomfort, and stress for children living …

Context End-of-life care (EoLC) communication skills training for generalist palliative care
providers is recommended in policy guidance globally. Although many training programs …