particularly related to how care providers interact with older people and how components of care are delivered, their location and their cost. Further research is needed focusing on low- and middle-income settings, vulnerable populations, and caregivers. ...
namely the need to identify patients near the end-of-life and provide appropriate care, there were clearly barriers that limited changes in practice. In a few cases, the evidence itself was contested, as was the relevance of the tools that were used to screen patients. However, more significa...
Alternatively, an African-American participant in a NH discussed having no role in the decision making of LTSS use and the decision being paternalistic: “They felt that I needed to come here. This was not a decision I made. The doctors talked my family into moving me here.” Participants...
For participants with advanced disability whose families and doctors were unwilling to burden them with full participation an ‘essential information only’ option was offered. This brief questionnaire was substantially smaller than the main questionnaire and took about thirty minutes to complete and includ...