Interview- and questionnaire-based surveys on elderly patients' wishes about artificial nutrition and hydration during end-of-life care

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1204-1210

  Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Mori, Hiromi ^b   Ishii, Masaki ^a   Okamoto, Sohshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi ^a   Iijima, Setsu ^c   Ogawa, Sumito ^a   Ouchi, Yasuyoshi ^a,d   Akishita, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^d TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

advance care planning; advance directive; artificial nutrition and hydration; end of life care; interview

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOOD; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84995376423     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ggi.12615     Document Type: Article

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