Challenges to improving end of life care of people with advanced dementia in the UK

Dementia

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-284

  Thuné Boyle, Ingela C V ^a   Sampson, Elizabeth L ^a   Jones, Louise ^a   King, Michael ^a   Lee, Dan R ^b   Blanchard, Martin R ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced care planning; Advanced dementia; Challenges; End of life care

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953637648     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301209354026     Document Type: Article

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