End-of-life experience of demented elderly patients at home: Findings from DEATH project

Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 60-67

  Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Masuda, Yuichiro ^a   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Kimata, Takaya ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a   Uemura, Kazumasa ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; End of life care; Incontinence; Intravenous infusion; Pain

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NAUSEA; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PAIN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL CARE; TIME OF DEATH; VOMITING;

EID: 33745563452     PISSN: 13463500     EISSN: 14798301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2006.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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