Provision of palliative and end-of-life care in New Zealand residential aged care facilities: general practitioners' perspectives

This exploratory study examined general practitioners’ (GPs) perspectives on delivering end-of-life care in the New Zealand residential aged care context. A general inductive approach to the data collected from semi-structured interviews with 17 GPs from 15 different New Zealand general practices was taken. Findings examine: (1) GPs’ life experience; (2) the GP relationship with the facilities and provision of end-of-life care; (3) the GP...