Navigating preferences for a trouble-free transition: a grounded theory study among older residents in nursing homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With rising demand for hospice and palliative care nursing (HPCN) in nursing homes (NHs) worldwide, understanding older residents' HPCN preferences has become increasingly crucial. Given the diversity of these preferences across cultural and institutional contexts, a context-specific understanding is essential to developing services truly meet individual needs. Existing research mainly focuses on specific end-of-life aspects and lacks integrative frameworks to explain how broader HPCN preferences are shaped. This study aims to explore how older residents form their HPCN preferences within the interplay of Chinese cultural values and institutional environments and develop a theoretical framework explicating this formation process.

Methods

Using a grounded theory ap

SUBMITTER: Ye Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12462029 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature