Table 2 Interview guide for the EOL care of residents in the long-term care facility

1. How are you right now?

 (1) “What economic condition are you in?”

 (2) “How do you feel about your health condition now compared with others or last year?”

 (3) “What chronic illness do you currently have?”

2. What are your options for end-of-life care?

 “What will you worry about when you are at the end of your life?”

3. “When death is coming…”

 (1) “When death is coming and you can’t eat anything, you will…”

 (2) “When death is coming and you can’t breathe, you will…”

 (3) “When death is coming and your heart stops beating, you will…”

 (4) “When death is coming, will you choose to go to the Intensive Care Unit or the hospice unit?”

4. During the last day of your life, where would you like to stay?

5. Apart from medicine, what else will you prepare for yourself?