Palliative Care in Rural Settings

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

“…Features of rural residency that facilitated or hindered end-of-life care were consistent with the literature. 26 Rural hospitals are integral to rural communities, and as such have the potential to be a safe place, and therefore an appropriate and acceptable place for rural residents to experience a 'good death'. If care is to be patient-centred, then processes need to be in place to ensure that all places providing end-of-life care are able to access and deliver this mixture of elements to ensure safety.…”