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- Title
Awareness of dementia by family carers of nursing home residents dying with dementia: A post-death study.
- Authors
Penders, Yolanda WH; Albers, Gwenda; Deliens, Luc; Vander Stichele, Robert; Van den Block, Lieve
- Abstract
The article cites a study which attempts to describe how often family carers of nursing home residents who died with dementia are aware that their relative has dementia. It examines resident, family carer, and care characteristics associated with awareness. It is concluded that family carers are often unaware that their relative has dementia.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; CAREGIVERS; CHI-squared test; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); CONFIDENCE intervals; DEMENTIA; FISHER exact test; INTELLECT; NURSING home patients; NURSING home employees; PALLIATIVE treatment; GENERAL practitioners; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); CROSS-sectional method; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216314542261