Background The number of older people with unmet care and support needs is increasing
substantially due to the challenges facing the formal and informal care system in the United …

There is little agreement about what constitutes good death or successful dying. The authors
conducted a literature search for published, English-language, peer-reviewed reports of …

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-
based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at …

Context There is no clear definition of what constitutes a good death or its features. Patients,
caregivers, physicians, and relatives have different notions of a good death. Discussions …

The Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology has published a
previous position paper and various guidelines over the past decade recognizing the value …

Heart failure is a serious condition and equivalent to malignant disease in terms of symptom
burden and mortality. At this moment only a comparatively small number of heart failure …

Objective: The “good death” is a dynamic concept and has evolved over time to become a
“revivalist” good death: a planned, peaceful, and dignified death, at home, surrounded by …

Background: Current evidence suggests that hospital nurses' end-of-life care is complex due
to the conflicting tasks of treatment-focused care and palliation. This is a topic that needs …

Context Despite the availability of numerous tools professing to measure quality of life (QOL)
in the palliative care setting, no single instrument includes all patient-valued domains …

Background Current models of end-of-life care (EOLC) have been largely developed for
cancer and may not meet the needs of heart failure patients. Aim To review the literature …