Home end-of-life care for advanced dementia vs advanced cancer elderly patients: Dying elderly at home project

Japanese Journal of Geriatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 355-360

  Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Masuda, Yuichiro ^a   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a   Asahi, Takiko ^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; Opioid; Pain; Symptom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745749676     PISSN: 03009173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.43.355     Document Type: Article

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