End-of-life care in the elderlydoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15569-4Mary BlissThe Lancet
The elderly at the end of life 来自 NCBI 喜欢 0 阅读量: 6 作者: WF Anderson 摘要: In this modern world there is going to be an increase of approximately 60 per cent in people 85 years and over before the turn of the century throughout the developed countries, and an even greater ...
Focuses on the end of life care of older adults and common misconceptions about dying in old age. Difference between dying in old age and dying young; Ways in which nursing home care can be improved for giving better end of life care; Ways in which pain can be assessed in elderly patient...
"For many patients, hospice is an 'add-on' to a very aggressive pattern of care during the last days of life," Dr. Joan Teno, professor of health services policy and practice at Brown University, said in awritten statement. "I suspect this is not what patients want." Palliative care i...
Nurse Next Door will put your needs first. We want to know where you would like to receive your care and where you want to spend your remaining days. You can receive end-of-life care at home or receivehospice servicesin a care facility, depending on your needs and desires. ...
Along with aging, the elderly population with cancers is increasing. The costs of end-of-life (EOL) care are particularly high among cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the trends in medical costs in the last year of life among older adults with cancer. Design, se...
Older people who live alone face particular challenges if they are to age and die well in the place and manner of their choosing. This discussion paper examines the experiences and needs of older people living alone towards the end of life. The paper focuses on the U.K., given recent poli...
INTRODUCTION: This study aims to determine the attitudes of Asian elderly patients towards invasive life support measures, the degree of patient-surrogate concordance in end-of-life decision making, the extent to which patients desire autonomy over end-of-life medical decisions, the reasons behind pa...
Victor G. Cicirelli.Views of Elderly People Concerning End-of-Life Decisions.of Applied Gerontology,1998Cicirelli VG (1998) Views of elderly people concerning end-of-life decisions. J Appl Gerontol 17:186–203Cicirelli, V. G. (1998). Views of elderly people concerning end-of- life decisions....
①>Yet such horrors do not seem to have come to pass. ②In places with the longest experience of assisted dying, charities that represent the elderly or disabled have not reported any abuse. ③It isconceivablethat some has taken place unobserved, butscrutinyhas been intense and in most countr...