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This episode features Isabel Vandenbogaerde (End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije\\xa0Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium).

What is already known about the topic:

• Involvement of family carers in advance care planning conversations is crucial for end-of-life decision-making.
• Family carers are willing to engage in advance care planning conversations, but experience barriers in doing so.
• Healthcare professionals may play an important role in supporting family carers in these advance care planning\\xa0conversations.

What this paper adds:

• About half of the family carers have an advance care planning conversation with their relative in the final 3\\u2009months of\\xa0life.
• Family carers were more likely to engage in advance care planning in case they were 55 of age or younger, had a\\xa0medical degree (e.g. nurse or doctor), and when specialist palliative care services were involved
• The majority of family carers received advance care planning conversation support from a healthcare professional by\\xa0performing the advance care planning conversation together.

Implications for practice, theory or policy:

• Healthcare professionals can play an important role in introducing tools, website or information campaigns of advance\\xa0care planning.
• Healthcare professionals may consider strategies to support and empower family carers to conduct advance care\\xa0planning conversations outside the clinical context.

Full paper available from:\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02692163221135032


If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative\\xa0Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu:\\xa0
a.nwosu@lancaster.ac.uk