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Table 12 Other Factors

From: Comparison of the experience of caregiving at end of life or in hastened death: a narrative synthesis review

Other factors

End of Life

Hastened Death

Structure of health care delivery

Availability, or not, of specialised services or at-home care support, cost of care, social policies supporting family caregiving [34, 41, 46, 49, 55, 61]

Legality, or not, of hastened death [15, 19, 20]

Grief

Variable acceptance of impending death, anticipatory grief [27, 31, 32, 36, 37, 41, 46,47,48, 51, 60]

Acceptance of hastened death as better than suffering or prolonged dying [19]