Advance care planning for nursing home residents with dementia: Policy vs. practice

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 569-581

  Ampe, Sophie ^a   Sevenants, Aline ^a   Smets, Tinne ^b   Declercq, Anja ^a   Van Audenhove, Chantal ^a  

^a KU Leuven University   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Dementia; End of life; Nursing; Nursing homes; Palliative care; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84956572281     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.12854     Document Type: Article

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