The 'safe death': An ethnographic study exploring the perspectives of rural palliative care patients and family caregivers.

Background: In rural settings, relationships between place and self are often stronger than for urban residents, so one may expect that rural people would view dying at home as a major feature of the 'good death'.

Aim: To explore the concept of the 'good death' articulated by rural patients with life-limiting illnesses, and their family caregivers.

Design: Ethnography, utilising open-ended interviews, observations and field-notes.

Dying at home in rural residential aged care: A mixed-methods study in the Snowy Monaro region, Australia.

Residential aged care (RAC) is a significant provider of end-of-life care for people aged 65 years and older. Rural residents perceive themselves as different to their urban counterparts. Most studies describing place of death (PoD) in RAC are quantitative and reflect an urban voice.

Place of death in the Snowy Monaro region of New South Wales: A study of residents who died of a condition amenable to palliative care.

Objective: To describe the place of death of residents in a rural region of New South Wales.

Design: Cross-sectional quantitative study using death data collected from local funeral directors (in person and websites), residential aged-care facilities, one multipurpose heath service and obituary notices in the local media (newspapers/radio).

Setting: Snowy Monaro region (New South Wales Australia).

Rural end-of-life care from the experiences and perspectives of patients and family caregivers: A systematic literature review.

Background: End-of-life care must be relevant to the dying person and their family caregiver regardless of where they live. Rural areas are distinct and need special consideration. Gaining end-of-life care experiences and perspectives of rural patients and their family caregivers is needed to ensure optimal rural care.

Rural residents' perspectives on the rural 'good death': a scoping review.

The 'good death' is one objective of palliative care, with many 'good death' viewpoints and research findings reflecting the urban voice. Rural areas are distinct and need special consideration. This scoping review identified and charted current research knowledge on the 'good' rural death through the perspectives of rural residents, including rural patients with a life-limiting illness, to identify evidence and gaps in the literature for future studies.