Instruments for Value Elucidation in Older Adults in Clinical Practice-A Scoping Review.

Background: To ensure appropriate care for the individual older adult, an ideal treatment should align with patients' values. However, healthcare professionals struggle with how to elucidate patient values effectively. To offer guidance to healthcare professionals, we performed a scoping review, thereby mapping and categorizing instruments specifically developed to elucidate values of older adults in clinical practice.

Moral Challenges of Nurses and Volunteers in Dutch Palliative Care. A Qualitative Study.

To identify moral challenges experienced by nurses and volunteers in palliative care. A qualitative hermeneutic research design was used. Interviews with nurses ( = 10) and volunteers ( = 4) working in palliative care, in-home care, and hospice setting.