Barriers to palliative care still exist in long-term care settings for older people, which can mean that people with advanced dementia may not receive of adequate palliative care in the last days of their life; instead, they may be exposed to aggressive and/or inappropriate treatments. The aim of this multicentre study was to assess the clinical interventions and care at end of life in a cohort of nursing home (NH) residents with advanced dementia in a large Italian region.

The last week of life of nursing home residents with advanced dementia: a retrospective study

Basso, Ines;Rosa, Debora;Monti, Massimo;Charrier, Lorena
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Di Giulio, Paola
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Abstract

Barriers to palliative care still exist in long-term care settings for older people, which can mean that people with advanced dementia may not receive of adequate palliative care in the last days of their life; instead, they may be exposed to aggressive and/or inappropriate treatments. The aim of this multicentre study was to assess the clinical interventions and care at end of life in a cohort of nursing home (NH) residents with advanced dementia in a large Italian region.
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https://bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12904-019-0510-x
Dementia; Nursing homes; Palliative care
Toscani, Franco; Finetti, Silvia; Giunco, Fabrizio; Basso, Ines; Rosa, Debora; Pettenati, Francesca; Bussotti, Alessandro; Villani, Daniele; Gentile, ...espandi
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