ArticleJournal of the American Medical Directors Association2023
Telehealth Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Scoping Review.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telehealth in palliative care settings: A systematic review of argument-based ethics literature.Palliative medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Nurse-led tele-palliative care for symptom management and family support: A hybrid umbrella review of reviews and primary studies.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Pooled it
- Role of Digital Health on Palliative Care: Umbrella Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Nurse-Delivered Telehealth in Home-Based Palliative Care: Integrative Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of Telemedicine on Informal Caregivers of Patients in Palliative Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Pooled it
- Hospitalization and Death Acceptance: A Meta-Ethnography of Perceptions of Hospital as a Place of Death for Nursing Home Residents.International journal of older people nursing · 2026Review
- Nurses' Perspectives on the Integration of Telehealth in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Efficacy of telemedicine for cancer patients in outpatient palliative care setting: Protocol of a randomized, open-label, non-inferiority study.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Improving Palliative Care in Residential Aged Care Using Telehealth: Protocol for a Realist Process Evaluation Embedded in a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Psychological distress interventions for family members in palliative care: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Targeted Digital Health Intervention in End-of-Life and Hospice Care: A Scoping Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Telehealth Use at the End-of-Life Among US Nursing Home Residents.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- Key informants' perceptions of telehealth palliative care for people living with dementia in nursing homes.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Evaluation of a Simulation Program for Providing Telenursing Training to Nursing Students: Cohort Study.JMIR medical education · 2025Article
- Impact of telehealth on health outcomes and quality of life in the older adults population: a systematic review.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
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- Integrating Telehealth into Community-Based Palliative Care: A Systematic Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- Promoting serious illness conversations in primary care through telehealth among persons living with cognitive impairment.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesMany adults older than 65 spend time in a nursing home (NH) at the end of life where specialist palliative care is limited. However, telehealth may improve access to palliative care services. A review of the literature was conducted to synthesize the evidence for telehealth palliative care in NHs to provide recommendations for practice, research, and policy.
designJoanna Briggs Institute guidance for scoping reviews, and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews frameworks were used to guide this literature review. SETTINGS AND
participantsReviewed articles focused on residents in NHs with telehealth palliative care interventionists operating remotely. Participants included NH residents, care partner(s), and NH staff/clinicians.
methodsWe searched Medline (Ovid), Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Library (WileyOnline), Scopus (Elsevier), CINHAL (EBSCOhost), Trip PRO, and Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) in June 2021, with an update in January 2022. We included observational and qualitative studies, clinical trials, quality improvement projects, and case and clinical reports that self-identified as telehealth palliative care for NH residents.
resultsThe review yielded 11 eligible articles published in the United States and internationally from 2008 to 2020. Articles described live video as the preferred telehealth delivery modality with goals of care and physical aspects of care being most commonly addressed. Findings in the articles focused on 5 patient and family-centered outcomes: symptom management, quality of life, advance care planning, health care use, and evaluation of care. Consistent benefits of telehealth palliative care included increased documentation of goals of care and decrease in acute care use. Disadvantages included technological difficulties and increased NH financial burden. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Although limited in scope and quality, the current evidence for telehealth palliative care interventions shows promise for improving quality and outcomes of serious illness care in NHs. Future empirical studies should focus on intervention effectiveness, implementation outcomes (eg, managing technology), stakeholders' experience, and costs.
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