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- Title
Would You Refer this Patient to Hospice? An Evaluation of Tools for Determining Life Expectancy in End-Stage Dementia.
- Authors
Doberman, Danielle J.; Yasar, Sevil; Durso, Samuel C.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 96-year-old woman with severe, progressive Alzheimer's disease and diabetes mellitus (DM). She was admitted by her daughter and advised not to live in a lonely life. In addition, the patient is entirely dependent in all activities of daily living for her survival and a bedridden because of contractures in her lower extremity.
- Subjects
QUALITATIVE research; CASE studies; DIABETES; DISEASES in older women; ALZHEIMER'S disease; SENILE dementia
- Publication
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 6, p1410
- ISSN
1096-6218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jpm.2007.9838