Abstract
A self-administered questionnaire was used to investigate the primary factors influencing the accep-tance of end-of-life care in special nursing homes for the elderly. Family members of older adults resid-ing in special nursing homes for the elderly responded to the questionnaire. The respondents were divided into three groups: consented, delusional, and not consented for end-of-life care. The results of comparing cognitive capacity, the vitality of the residents, the facility’s capacity for care, and the family’s way of liv-ing and facing Death, as well as their feelings of care burden were as follows: consented > delusional > not consented. It is concluded that when the possibility of end-of-life care was high when the cognitive capacity of residents was low.
