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  • Palliative Care
  • Family Caregiving
  • End-of-Life Studies

Background:

  • Family caregivers play a vital role in home-based palliative care and supporting a home death.
  • Understanding enablers for sustained home caregiving until death is crucial for effective support strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the experiences of bereaved family caregivers who successfully facilitated a desired home death for terminally ill family members with advanced cancer.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative interpretive descriptive approach.
  • Semi-structured interviews, field notes, and reflective journaling with 29 bereaved family caregivers in British Columbia, Canada.
  • Participants cared for family members with advanced cancer who died at home.

Main Results:

  • Four themes emerged: context of care, supportive antecedents, determination for home care, and enabled determination.
  • Key enablers for achieving a home death included initiating formal palliative care, seeking/receiving help, augmented care, respite, and navigating the healthcare system.

Conclusions:

  • Clarifying caregiving goals is essential.
  • Supporting factors that enable caregiver determination enhances the likelihood of a desired home death.