Background: most people in contemporary western society die of the chronic diseases of
old age. Whilst palliative care is appropriate for elderly patients with chronic, non-malignant …

Family caregivers are crucial for supporting home death. We reviewed published qualitative
research on home-based family caregiving at end of life (1998—2008), synthesizing key …

The changing context of palliative care over the last decade highlights the importance of
recent research on home-based family caregiving at the end of life. This article reports on a …

Research indicates that fewer people are able to die at home than would wish to do so.
Furthermore the ability to die at home is unequally distributed depending on patient …

Objective: To evaluate the impact on place of death of a hospital at home service for palliative
care. Design: Pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Setting: Former Cambridge health …

Background: Statistical analysis in palliative and end-of-life care research can be problematic
due to high levels of missing data, attrition and response shift as disease progresses. Aim: …

The studies reported in this paper had two aims: (a) to identify which psychological variables
underlie people's overly positive assessments of their own ability and (b) to explore the …

Background: There is little guidance on the particular ethical concerns that research raises
with a palliative care population. Aim: To present the process and outcomes of a workshop …

This study used a randomized controlled trial design to investigate the impact of hospice at
home (HAH) on caregiver bereavement outcome. Secondary analyses considered the …

Objective:Self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important predictor of
survival alongside clinical variables and physicians' prediction. This study assessed whether …