Quality of dying in nursing home residents dying with dementia: does advanced care planning matter? A nationwide postmortem study.

Advance care planning is considered a central component of good quality palliative care and especially relevant for people who lose the capacity to make decisions at the end of life, which is the case for many nursing home residents with dementia. We set out to investigate to what extent (1) advance...

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Main Authors: An Vandervoort, Dirk Houttekier, Robert Vander Stichele, Jenny T van der Steen, Lieve Van den Block
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3948949?pdf=render