Search strategy conducted in the CINAHL database
| Concepts | Informal caregivers | Palliative and end-of-life care | Older adults |
| Keywords | Family-ies Caregiver-s Caregiving Spouse-s Wife-ves Husband-s Brother-s Sibling-s Sister-s Son-s Daughter-s Child-ren Relative-s Offspring-s Grandchild-ren Next of kin | End-of-life care End-of-life treatment EOL care EOL treatment Palliative care Palliative approach-es Palliative therapy-ies Palliative medicine Palliative treatment-s Palliative Surgery-ies Palliative sedation Palliation Surgical palliation Supportive Care Terminal care Terminal treatment-s Terminal therapy-ies Terminal sedation Terminally ill patient-s Terminal illness-es Hospice care Hospice treatment-s Hospice therapy-ies Hospice practice-s Hospice programs Hospice patients Suicide assisted care Assisted death-s Assisted dying Assisted suicide-s Euthanasia MAID (medical assistance in dying) Medical aid in death Medical aid in dying Dying care Dying measures Dying patients | Older adult-s Old person Old people Older people Old age Aged Elderly Elder-s Senior-s Centenarian-s Nonagenarian-s Octogenarian-s Septuagenarian-s Sexagenarian-s Geriatric-s Gerontology Gerontologic |
| CINAHL descriptors | (MH “Family+") (MH “Caregivers”) (MH “Caregiver Support”) (MH “Caregiver Burden”) (MH “Caregiver Attitudes”) (MH “Professional-Family Relations”) (MH “Decision Making, Family”) (MH “Family Centered Care”) (MH “Family Attitudes+") (MH “Family Nursing”) (MH “Patient-Family Conferences”) (MH “Family Role”) (MH “Family Assessment”) (MH “Dependent Families”) | (MH “Hospice and Palliative Nursing”) (MH “Terminally Ill Patients+") (MH “Terminal Care+") (MH “Attitude to Death”) (MH “End-of-Life Comfort Questionnaires”) | (MH “Aged+") (MH “Gerontologic Care”) (MH “Gerontologic Nursing+") (MH “Gerontologic Nurse Practitioners”) (MH “Geriatric Psychiatry”) (MH “Geriatric Nutrition”) |
| CINAHL search combining keywords and descriptors | (Family OR Families OR Caregiv* OR Spouse* OR Wife OR Wives OR Husband* OR Brother* OR Sibling* OR Sister* OR Son OR Sons OR Son’s OR Daughter* OR Child* OR Relative OR Relatives OR Offspring* OR Grandchild* OR “Next of Kin” OR (MH “Family+“) OR (MH “Caregivers”) OR (MH “Caregiver Support”) OR (MH “Caregiver Burden”) OR (MH “Caregiver Attitudes”) OR (MH “Professional-Family Relations”) OR (MH “Decision Making, Family”) OR (MH “Family Centered Care “) OR (MH “Family Attitudes+“) OR (MH “Family Nursing”) OR (MH “Patient-Family Conferences”) OR (MH “Family Role”) OR (MH “Family Assessment”) OR (MH “Dependent Families”)) AND ((“End-of-life” OR “EOL”) OR Palliat* OR “Supportive care” OR (Terminal* N2 (care OR treatment* OR therap* OR sedation OR ill*)) OR Hospice OR ((Care OR Treatment*) N2 (withdraw* OR withhold* OR cessation)) OR (Assist* N2 (death* OR dying OR suicide*)) OR Euthanasia OR (“Medical aid” N2 (death* OR dying)) OR “MAID” OR (Bereavement N3 (care OR support*)) OR (Dying N2 (care OR measure* OR patient*)) OR “Death care” OR (Attitude* N2 (death* OR dying)) OR “Final stages of life” OR (MH “Hospice and Palliative Nursing”) OR (MH “Terminally Ill Patients+“) OR (MH “Terminal Care+“) OR (MH “Attitude to Death”) OR (MH “End-of-Life Comfort Questionnaires”)) AND ((Old* N2 (adult* OR person OR people OR age OR individual*)) OR Elder* OR Senior* OR Aged OR Centenarian* OR Nonagenarian* OR Octogenarian* OR Septuagenarian* OR Sexagenarian* OR Geriatric* OR Gerontolog* OR (MH “Aged+“) OR (MH “Gerontologic Care”) OR (MH “Gerontologic Nursing+“) OR (MH “Gerontologic Nurse Practitioners”) OR (MH “Geriatric Psychiatry”) OR (MH “Geriatric Nutrition”)) | ||