Table 3.

Synthesized finding 2

Findings	Categories	Synthesized finding
Feelings of isolation (U)	Isolation and loneliness	Older persons receiving palliative care in the community experience isolation and loneliness exacerbated by their detachment and withdrawal from and by others.
Dying patients could experience feelings of isolation (U)
Falling outside the margins of everyday life meant that dying was experienced as an isolated inhuman experience (U)
Intense existential intrapersonal isolation and aloneness … to be part of confronting death (U)
Returning home meant returning to … lonely, dying world (U)
Social isolation from other individuals as a function of … conflicted feelings (U)
Being unable to participate in everyday life activities left study participants feeling marginalized (U)
Handed over their personal roles to those who would outlive them (U)	Detaching and withdrawing
Detaching and withdrawing from others (U)
Detaching sometimes was extended to extended to their palliative care nurses (U)
Significant others initiated the detachment, marginalizing the dying individual (U)

U, unequivocal.