Why do older people get less palliative care than younger people?
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Palliative care for older people in nursing homes.
Healthcare does not follow a linear track of prevention, health gain, health maintenance and palliative care. Instead, aspects of each occur to differing degrees at various stages of life 1 . While the palliative care component increases as we near the end of our life span, we also engage in a range of preventive measures in later life (and in nursing homes) such as influenza vaccination, falls...
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