Living with an Older Person Dying from Cancer, Lung Disease, or Dementia: Health Outcomes from a General Practice Cohort Study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 839-848

  Sampson, Elizabeth L ^a   Lodwick, Rebecca ^a   Rait, Greta ^a   Candy, Bridget ^a   Low, Joe ^a   King, Michael ^a   Petersen, Irene ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

bereavement; Caregivers; epidemiology; palliative care; primary health care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHABITING PERSON; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DYING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84959219586     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.12.319     Document Type: Article

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