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Dying from dementia.
As a teenager, I had the unfortunate but ultimately career-shaping experience of watching my maternal grandmother decline from Alzheimer’s disease. She resided in a nursing home, where her final months were marked by repeated courses of antibiotics for infections and the use of restraints or medications to control her agitation before she died from one last infection. Seeing my grandmother in t...
متن کاملDying with dementia in long-term care.
PURPOSE To better understand the experiences and potential unmet need of persons who die in long-term care. DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted after-death interviews with staff who had cared for 422 decedents with dementia and 159 who were cognitively intact and received terminal care in U.S. nursing homes (NHs) or residential care-assisted living (RC-AL) settings. We conducted family caregiver ...
متن کاملDying with advanced dementia in the nursing home.
BACKGROUND Nursing homes are important providers of end-of-life care to persons with advanced dementia. METHODS We used data from the Minimum Data Set (June 1, 1994, to December 31, 1997) to identify persons 65 years and older who died with advanced dementia (n = 1609) and terminal cancer (n = 883) within 1 year of admission to any New York State nursing home. Variables from the Minimum Data ...
متن کاملThe experience of dying with dementia: a retrospective study.
OBJECTIVE To describe the last year of life of people with dementia, their symptoms, care needs, use of and satisfaction with health services and the bereavement state of the respondent. METHODS The study is drawn from the Regional Study of Care for the Dying, a retrospective sample survey of the carers, family members or others who knew about the last year of life of a random sample of peopl...
متن کاملThe unmet palliative care needs of those dying with dementia.
An estimated 33.9 million people are living with dementia worldwide. The overall estimated median survival time from onset of dementia to death is 4.1 years for men and 4.6 years for women, with longer survival times in those with early-onset dementia. Much has been discussed about the needs of this vulnerable group of people particularly in terms of their health-care and end-of-life care (EoLC...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1866-0452
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2013.0195