End-of-life care in German and Dutch nursing homes: a cross-sectional study on nursing home staff's perspective in 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As society ages, the need for nursing home care is steadily increasing and end-of-life care of nursing home residents has become increasingly more important. End-of-life care differs between Germany and the neighbouring Netherlands. For example, a much higher proportion of German compared to Dutch nursing home residents is hospitalized at the end of life. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate end-of-life care in German and Dutch nursing homes.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, a postal survey was sent to 600 randomly selected German and Dutch nursing homes each and addressed to the nursing staff management. Participants were asked to estimate the percentage of nursing home residents whose wishes for emergency situations (e.g. cardiopulmonary resusc

SUBMITTER: Bauer AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11177492 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature