Dying with Advanced Dementia in the Nursing Home

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 321-326

  Mitchell, Susan L ^a,b,c   Kiely, Dan K ^a   Hamel, Mary Beth ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CANCER PATIENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; DECISION MAKING; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DYING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TERMINAL CARE; TUBE FEEDING; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK; NURSING HOMES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0842348757     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.3.321     Document Type: Article

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