Recognizing dementia as a terminal illness in nursing home residents

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1107-1109

  Chang, Anna ^a   Walter, Louise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; DEMENTIA; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; NOTE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEMENTIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954584842     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.166     Document Type: Note

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