Caregivers' understanding of dementia predicts patients' comfort at death: a prospective observational study
Background: Patients with dementia frequently do not receive adequate palliative care which may relate to poor understanding of the natural course of dementia. We hypothesized that understanding that dementia is a progressive and terminal disease is fundamental to a focus on comfort in dementia, and examined how family and professional caregivers' understanding of the nature of the disease was associated with patients' comfort during the dying process. Methods: We enrolled 372 nursing home patients from 28 facilities in The Netherlands in a prospective observational study (2007 to 2010). We st... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
Schlagwörter: | Medicine and Health Sciences / OF-LIFE CARE / DECISION-MAKING / Dementia / End of life / Palliative care / NURSING-HOME PATIENTS / UNITED-STATES / END / PNEUMONIA / RESIDENTS / INSTRUMENTS / NETHERLANDS / SETTINGS |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29197118 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/5811045 |