Palliative medicine and end of life issues in older adults. The main messages from the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society Glasgow symposium

European Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-68

  Blain, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; DRONABINOL; FORMOTEROL; FUROSEMIDE; MEGESTROL; MEGESTROL ACETATE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; CACHEXIA; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; EUTHANASIA; GERIATRIC CARE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVING WILL; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDER; TERMINAL DISEASE; TIME OF DEATH; TRAINING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 77953546704     PISSN: 18787649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurger.2010.01.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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