Study: Families Interfere with End-of-Life Care

According to a survey conducted in Canada and France, a majority of LTC professionals believe that relatives of dying residents interfere with end-of-life care.

When asked whether they agreed with the statement "family members tend to interfere in the care of residents at the end of life," 50 percent of respondents said "somewhat agree" and 22 percent said "strongly agree."

According to follow-up interviews, the LTC professionals believe that residents' families something exhibit "problematic behaviors" and create "dysfunctional situations" when their loved ones are dying.

The researchers hypothesized that cultural differences between caregivers' approach to end-of-life care and families' expectations could help explain the responses.

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