Advance care planning for older people in Australia presenting to the emergency department from the community or residential aged care facilities

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 513-522

  Street, Maryann ^a   Ottmann, Goetz ^a,b   Johnstone, Megan Jane ^a   Considine, Julie ^a   Livingston, Patricia M ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Uniting Care Community Options   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Advance directives (medical care); Domiciliary aged care; Emergency departments; End of life care; Residential aged care

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84937074176     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12162     Document Type: Article

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