An exploration of healthcare professionals' beliefs about caring for older people dying from cancer with a coincidental dementia

Dementia

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 559-565

  Bartlett, Abigail ^a   Clarke, Brenda ^b  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer; dementia; dying; End of life; multidisciplinary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863707381     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301212437824     Document Type: Article

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