Palliative care for the older adult

J Kapo, LJ Morrison, S Liao - Journal of palliative medicine, 2007 - liebertpub.com
… In highlighting these differences in care by age group, this study … the care of frail, older
persons is a necessity for palliative care clinicians to provide high-quality end-of-life care to older

Prediction of appropriate timing of palliative care for older adults with non-malignant life-threatening disease: a systematic review

PA Coventry, GE Grande, DA Richards… - Age and …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
palliative care. But perhaps the main barrier to extending specialist palliative care services
to older, … and/or inability to define palliative status and predict time to death in this group [8]. …

Providing palliative care to older adults: context and challenges

MM Ross, B Mcdonald - Journal of Palliative Care, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
… Participants in this study provided palliative care in the home to older adults. Their work
occurred within a context of aging and dying characterized by clients' awareness of impending …

Palliative care for frail older adults:“there are things I can't do anymore that I wish I could...”

KS Boockvar, DE Meier - Jama, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
care planning, provider-patient communication, and appropriate palliative care and hospice
referral for frail older adults. … Therefore, when frailty is severe, delivery of palliative care

Older adults' attitudes to death, palliative treatment and hospice care

S Catt, M Blanchard, J Addington-Hall… - Palliative …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
… have priority for hospice care. Education, … palliative care services by older people with
cancer in the UK cannot be explained by their attitudes to end-of-life issues and palliative care

Palliative care needs of seriously ill, older adults presenting to the emergency department

CR Grudzen, LD Richardson… - Academic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
care services and what their palliative care needs are. To this … palliative care needs of older
adults in the ED. We hypothesized that the palliative care needs of seriously ill, older adults

Defining the role of palliative care in older adults with heart failure

DB Bekelman, E Hutt, FA Masoudi, JS Kutner… - International journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
palliative care in heart failure. Our objective is to help define the role of palliative care in the
treatment of older adults … that acknowledge the complexity of older persons with heart failure …

Dispelling myths about palliative care and older adults

W Duggleby, BM Raudonis - Seminars in oncology nursing, 2006 - Elsevier
… needs of older adults with … in the care for older adults receiving palliative care.
EVIDENCE-BASED oncology nursing practice is essential to the provision of quality care for …

[图书][B] Better palliative care for older people

E Davies, IJ Higginson - 2004 - apps.who.int
… The scale of the need for palliative care for the growing population of older adults suggests
that it requires a multifaceted approach and the application of public health methods to make …

Palliative care for people with hepatocellular carcinoma, and specific benefits for older adults

CD Woodrell, L Hansen, TD Schiano, NE Goldstein - Clinical therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
… This is a narrative review in which we identify evidence-based ways that palliative care
can help younger and older adults with HCC and their families, at each stage of HCC and …