Table 11 Healthcare Professionals
End of Life | Hastened Death | |
|---|---|---|
Healthcare professionals | Enhancing: providing instruction and information, handling tasks beyond caregiver’s skill, acknowledging caregiver effort, providing regular social interaction or respite | Enhancing: providing information about what to expect in death |
Challenging: lack of comfort in discussing or supporting patient’s desire for hastened death [15, 16, 18,19,20, 69, 71] | ||
Challenging: lack of care coordination or continuity, lack of empathy, lack of specialised knowledge or services, lack of clarity about available services, focus only on patient, disappearance of services after death [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37, 43, 46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64] |