Palliative care for older people – exploring the views of doctors and nurses from different fields in Germany

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Providing appropriate palliative care for older people is a major task for health care systems worldwide, and up to now it has also been one of the most neglected. Focusing on the German health care system, we sought to explore the a...

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Main Authors: Schneider Nils, Schumacher Martin, Brueckner Torben
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-06-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/8/7