Place of care and death preferences among recently bereaved family members: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim was: (1) to investigate preferred place for end-of-life care and death for bereaved family members who had recently lost a person with advanced illness and (2) to investigate associations between bereaved family members' preferences and individual characteristics, health-related quality of life, as well as associations with their perception of the quality of care that the ill person had received, the ill person's preferred place of death and involvement in decision-making about care.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey with bereaved family members, employing descriptive statistics and multinominal logistic regression analyses.

Results

Of the 485 participants, 70.7% were women, 36.1% were ≥70 years old, 34.5% were partners and 51.8% were children of the

SUBMITTER: O'Sullivan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11672062 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature