Factors that support home deaths for patients receiving at-home palliative and end-of-life care: a sequential mixed-methods explanatory study

Respite care more than doubles the odds of remaining at home and home death. Timely access to services that include home care, nursing care and hygiene and a palliative care approach is essential to support patients receiving PEoLC who wish to die at home. Stabilizing staffing of home care teams, standardizing PEoLC services offered across community health centers in the province, and optimal use of nurse practitioners would improve services offered to patients receiving PEoLC and their caregivers.