"It's like crystal gazing": The Lived Experience of Anticipating End-of-Life Choices in Older Adults and Their Close Ones.

Anticipation of choices for hypothetical end-of-life scenarios turned out to be complex and ambivalent. Most older adults resisted ambivalence and ignored complexity in an attempt to stay in control over their end of life. The burdening impact of choices on close ones illuminated the relationality of choice-making processes. These aspects of end-of-life choice-making processes should be integrated into ACP in order to better understand and care for people and their close ones faced with these choices.