[Advance care planning in nursing homes: scoping review].

Advance care planning is a deliberative process that aims to help patients define goals and preferences for future care and treatment at a times when they have limited decision-making capacity. This study aims to analyze models of advance care planning in elderly individuals living in nursing homes. We reviewed papers published in Cochrane, PubMed and Embase.

[Care for the Patient and his Family at the end of Life: Compassionate Advance Care Planning].

End of life is frequently accompanied by suffering and hardships that can be alleviated in the Palliative Care (PC) units by applying compassionate advance care. It is the aim of this paper to describe the concept of "compassionate advance care" as a way of caring for the patient and his family at the end of life from the perspective of both professionals, teachers and students of the health sciences, and persons with advanced disease and their families. A qualitative methodology was used.

[Palliative care support teams and the commitment of primary care teams to terminally ill patients in their homes].

Objective: To find out if the activity of palliative care support teams (PCST) does not negatively influences the performance of the primary care "care of terminally ill patients" service.

Participants: Terminally ill patients cared for at home.

Design: Multicentre observational study.