Living and dying with advanced dementia: A prospective cohort study of symptoms, service use and care at the end of life

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 668-681

  Sampson, Elizabeth L ^a,b   Candy, Bridget ^a   Davis, Sarah ^a   Gola, Anna Buylova ^a   Harrington, Jane ^a   King, Michael ^a   Kupeli, Nuriye ^a   Leavey, Gerry ^c   Moore, Kirsten ^a   Nazareth, Irwin ^a   Omar, Rumana Z ^a   Vickerstaff, Victoria ^a   Jones, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

behavioural symptoms; Dementia; pain; palliative care; primary healthcare; psychomotor agitation; quality of healthcare; residential facilities; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT LOSS; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; DEMENTIA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HALLUCINATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALLIATIVE NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL WORK; VERY ELDERLY; NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 85042235954     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216317726443     Document Type: Article

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