Family members or caregivers of adult patients with life-limiting illness, through the point of death
Exposure
Caring for an adult patient who is dying (life expectancy < 3–6 months) or who chooses hastened death (medical aid in dying, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, euthanasia)
Context
Caregiving in the home
Outcome
Caregivers’ emotional, practical, and philosophical experiences with caring for loved ones at end of life, either because of illness or related to deliberately hastened death