Bringing palliative care into geriatrics in a Chinese Culture Society - Results of a collaborative model between palliative medicine and geriatrics unit in Hong Kong

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 779-781

  Cheng, Hon Wai Benjamin ^a,b   Li, Cho Wing ^a   Chan, Kwok Ying ^a   Ho, Rebecca ^a   Sham, Mau Kwong ^a  

^a GRANTHAM HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BEREAVEMENT; CAREGIVER; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEART FAILURE; HONG KONG; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; SOCIETY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 84901716020     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12760     Document Type: Letter

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