What is Family-Centered Care for Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia?
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Estimating prognosis for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
CONTEXT Survival varies for patients with advanced dementia, and accurate prognostic tools have not been developed. A small proportion of patients admitted to hospice have dementia, in part because of the difficulty in predicting survival. OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with 6-month mortality in newly admitted nursing home residents with advanced dementia and to create a practical ...
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MANY FAMILIES AND HEALTH care professionals in the United States believe that palliation is the most appropriate goal for patients with endstage dementia. However, many nursing home residents dying with advanced dementia in the United States do not receive optimal palliative care. Accurately estimating the life expectancy of persons with advanced dementia is difficult and hinders palliative car...
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IMPORTANCE Nursing home residents with advanced dementia commonly experience burdensome and costly hospitalizations that may not extend survival or improve the quality of life. Fragmentation in health care has contributed to poor coordination of care for acutely ill nursing home residents. OBJECTIVE To compare patterns of care and quality outcomes for nursing home residents with advanced deme...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementiasr
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1533-3175,1938-2731
DOI: 10.1177/1533317513504613