Background: Significantly fewer individuals with migration backgrounds than native-born individuals undertake advance care planning. Older adults with Turkish and Moroccan backgrounds represent one of the largest ageing non-Western minority groups in Europe. Their relatives could play important roles in facilitating or hindering advance care planning, but their views remain underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Data on advance care planning (ACP) among migrants in Europe is lacking. Research has shown that few older migrants in the United States perform ACP due to healthcare system distrust, collectivistic values and spirituality/religion.
Objectives: To explore the ACP knowledge and perspectives of older Turkish-origin adults in Belgium requiring palliative care.
Objective: To explore advance care planning (ACP)-related knowledge, experience, views, facilitators and barriers among older Moroccan adults in Belgium.
Method: General practitioners (GPs) recruited participants for semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using the constant comparative method.
Context: Although conversations about future medical treatment and end-of-life care are considered to be important, ethnic minorities are much less engaged in advance care planning (ACP).
Objectives: To explore ACP knowledge, experiences, views, facilitators, and barriers among older adults of Turkish origin in Belgium.
Methods: This qualitative study was based on constant comparative analysis of semistructured interview content.