Advance Care Planning in terminally ill and frail older persons

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-329

  Piers, Ruth D ^a   van Eechoud, Ineke J ^a   Van Camp, Sigrid ^a   Grypdonck, Mieke ^b   Deveugele, Myriam ^b   Verbeke, Natacha C ^a   Van Den Noortgate, Nele J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Advance Care Planning; Communication; Elderly; End of life care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY RELATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84873437828     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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