All Outputs (7)

Simultaneously reassuring and unsettling: a longitudinal qualitative study of community anticipatory medication prescribing for older patients (2022)
Journal Article

Background: The prescription of injectable anticipatory medications is widely accepted by clinicians to be key in facilitating effective last-days-of-life symptom control. Community end-of-life care and admission avoidance is particularly strongly ad... Read More about Simultaneously reassuring and unsettling: a longitudinal qualitative study of community anticipatory medication prescribing for older patients.

Talking about death and dying: Findings from deliberative discussion groups with members of the public (2022)
Journal Article

Talking about death and dying is promoted in UK health policy and practice, from a perception that to do so encourages people to plan for their end of life and so increase their likelihood of experiencing a good death. This encouragement occurs along... Read More about Talking about death and dying: Findings from deliberative discussion groups with members of the public.

‘It’s Not Like in the Films’: Bereaved People’s Experiences of the Deathbed Vigil (2022)
Journal Article

This paper explores how people enact and experience the deathbed vigil when someone close to them is dying. It draws on qualitative interviews with 34 bereaved people carried out as part of a wider study exploring public perceptions of death and dyin... Read More about ‘It’s Not Like in the Films’: Bereaved People’s Experiences of the Deathbed Vigil.

How can advance care planning support hope in patients with advanced cancer and their families: A qualitative study as part of the international ACTION trial (2022)
Journal Article

Objective: Clinicians' fears of taking away patients' hope is one of the barriers to advance care planning (ACP). Research on how ACP supports hope is scarce. We have taken up the challenge to specify ways in which ACP conversations may potentially s... Read More about How can advance care planning support hope in patients with advanced cancer and their families: A qualitative study as part of the international ACTION trial.

Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning: qualitative findings from the ACTION cluster randomised controlled trial of an adapted respecting choices intervention (2022)
Journal Article

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is widely regarded as a component of good end-of-life care. However, findings from a qualitative international study of patient and family caregiver attitudes and preferences regarding ACP highlight participants’ ambivalen... Read More about Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning: qualitative findings from the ACTION cluster randomised controlled trial of an adapted respecting choices intervention.

‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories (2022)
Journal Article

Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes.... Read More about ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.

Scoping review of end-of-life decision-making models used in dogs, cats and equids (2022)
Journal Article

Background: End-of-life decisions for companion animals can be stressful for veterinarians and owners, and when delayed result in poor animal welfare. Delayed euthanasia has been identified as a particularly prominent issue for horses. This scoping r... Read More about Scoping review of end-of-life decision-making models used in dogs, cats and equids.