Changes over a decade in end-of-life care and transfers during the last 3 months of life: A repeated survey among proxies of deceased older people

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 544-552

  Kaspers, Pam J ^a   Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Deeg, Dorly J H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

End of life care; formal home care; functional ability; hospital death; informal home care; institutional care; older people; place of death; transfers

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DYING; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; GERIATRIC CARE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERMINAL CARE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

END-OF-LIFE CARE; FORMAL HOME CARE; FUNCTIONAL ABILITY; HOSPITAL DEATH; INFORMAL HOME CARE; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; OLDER PEOPLE; PLACE OF DEATH; TRANSFERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT TRANSFER; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84877971083     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216312457212     Document Type: Article

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