Kathryn Almack

TL;DR: How community palliative care nurses in England understand ACP and their roles within ACP is examined to reveal some important areas for practice and educational development to enhance nurses' use and understanding of ACP.

TL;DR: Insight is provided into the complexities surrounding the initiation of Advance Care Planning involving conversations about end of life care preferences with patients who are identified as having palliative care needs, in particular in relation to the risks inherent in the process of having conversations where mortality must be acknowledged.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how sexual orientation may impact on concerns about, and experiences of, end of life care and bereavement within same-sex relationships, drawing on exploratory data from four focus groups with lesbian and gay elders.

TL;DR: Examination of health-care experiences of LGBT people facing advanced illness found experiences of discrimination and exclusion in health care persist for LGBT people, despite recent legislative change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the family practice of choosing surnames for children as one example of decisions that are negotiated in the relative absence of any established norms to follow, and examine some of the dominant themes that underpin the ways in which respondents account for these choices, placed within the context of wider theoretical debates about contemporary transformations of intimacy.