0 End-of-life issues relate to someone's death and the time just before it, when it is known that they are likely to die soon from an illness or condition:
Despite reported racial differences in preferences for end-of-life care, patients have individualized needs for information, discussion of emotions, and decision-making collaboration.
If so, disputes over end-of-life treatments could be resolved without requiring hospitals to go to court.
Numerous studies and key publications have proposed frameworks that identify key concepts or domains of end-of-life care.
In addition, a negative correlation was found between the amount of end-of-life training received and burnout in the physical and cognitive domains.
This paper attends to an inf ormal care situation more rarely examined in the literature, that of end-of-life care.
As is apparent in these accounts, end-of-life care was both a valued commitment f or relatives and f r iends and a source of strain.
Their inf ormal end-of-life car ing remit extended, then, to the g rave and beyond.
To advance end-of-life care, researchers need to find effective interventions that help the terminally ill complete the work necessary for spiritual well-being.
