Does age matter in palliative care?

SC Teunissen, HC de Haes, EE Voest… - Critical reviews in …, 2006 - Elsevier
… , it is important to determine whether palliative treatment strategies should be adjusted according
to the age of … The increase of depressed mood with age we found is in contrast with the …

End-of-life care in nursing home settings: do race or age matter?

KS Reynolds, LC Hanson, M Henderson… - Palliative & Supportive …, 2008 - cambridge.org
palliative care quality in these settings. This study tests whether racial and/or agebased
differences in end-of-life care … of palliative care in two domains of care—advance care planning …

Does it matter what you call it? A randomized trial of language used to describe palliative care services

RM Maciasz, RM Arnold, E Chu, SY Park… - Supportive care in …, 2013 - Springer
palliative care with hospice or assume that palliative care services cannot be provided
concomitantly with active treatment [… Palliative care (or supportive care) is appropriate at any age

Oncologists' end of life treatment decisions: How much does patient age matter?

M Bluhm, CM Connell, N Janz… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… Therefore, a study aimed at understanding the impact of patient age on oncologists’ end-of-life
treatment decisions is warranted. In related literature on treatment decision making, …

Does age matter? A comparison of health‐related quality of life issues of adolescents and young adults with cancer

SC Sodergren, O Husson, GE Rohde… - … of Cancer Care, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… AYAs and older adults receiving curative intent treatment or supportive palliative care for
cancer were recruited from eight research centres across Europe. Participants used a rating …

Does palliative care education matter to medical students? The experience of attending an undergraduate course in palliative care

C Centeno, M Ballesteros, JM Carrasco… - … & palliative care, 2016 - spcare.bmj.com
Palliative care (PC) education has become a priority in many European countries where
PC is quickly developing. There remains, however, a lack of information on acceptability and …

Measuring family satisfaction with care and quality of dying in the intensive care unit: does patient age matter?

M Lewis-Newby, JR Curtis, DP Martin… - … of palliative medicine, 2011 - liebertpub.com
… To evaluate whether patient age was associated with different family assessments of end-of-life
care, we completed unadjusted and adjusted analyses. For the unadjusted analyses, we …

Analysis of predictors of pain response in patients with bone metastasis undergoing palliative radiotherapy: Does age matter?

J Cacicedo, A Gómez‐Iturriaga… - Journal of Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… even palliative treatment such as radiotherapy.4, 8, 9 … age should not influence decisions
to withhold palliative radiotherapy. Therefore, elderly patients should be referred for palliative

The importance of age in allocating health care resources: does intervention‐type matter?

M Johri, LJ Damschroder, BJ Zikmund‐Fisher… - Health …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… younger age groups while those for the palliative care scenario showed no age preference.
… When directly rating the importance of age in allocating treatment resources, people placed …

Does modality matter? Palliative care unit associated with more cost-avoidance than consultations

P May, MM Garrido, E Del Fabbro, D Noreika… - Journal of pain and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Patients in our weighted sample had a mean age of 64 years and a mean of 3.5 comorbidities
(Table 1). A majority (61%) of patients had a primary diagnosis of something other than …