Caregivers’ understanding of dementia predicts patients’ comfort at death: a prospective observation...
Caregivers’ understanding of dementia predicts patients’ comfort at death: a prospective observational study
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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English
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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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' understandin...
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Caregivers’ understanding of dementia predicts patients’ comfort at death: a prospective observational study
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3648449
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3648449
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1741-7015
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1741-7015
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10.1186/1741-7015-11-105
