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  1. People with dementia have unique palliative and end-of-life needs. However, access to quality palliative and end-of-life care for people with dementia living in nursing ... for nursing home staff training in deme...

    Authors: Joanne Tropea, Debra Nestel, Christina Johnson, Barbara J. Hayes, Anastasia F. Hutchinson, Caroline Brand, Brian H. Le, Irene Blackberry, Gideon A. Caplan, Ross Bicknell, Graham Hepworth and Wen K. Lim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:127
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Nursing homes are important locations for palliative care. Through comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGAs), evaluations can be made of palliative care needs of nursing home residents. The interRAI Palliative Care

    Authors: Kirsten Hermans, Nele Spruytte, Joachim Cohen, Chantal Van Audenhove and Anja Declercq
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:132
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  3. Innovative small-scale facilities for dementia focus on providing quality of life and maintaining the functional abilities of residents while offering residents a home for life. To fulfill the home-for-life princ...

    Authors: Brittany S. DeGraves, Judith M. M. Meijers, Carole A. Estabrooks and Hilde Verbeek
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:700
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  4. Delivering palliative care to elderly, dying patients is a present ... has been underlined by a 2009 legislation implementing palliative care as compulsory in the medical curriculum. While ... western countries m...

    Authors: Johannes M Just, Christian Schulz, Maren Bongartz and Martin W Schnell
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2010 10:66
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Advance care planninganning (ACP) is a priority within palliative care service provision. Nurses working in the community ... in ACP. Carers and family members of palliative patients often find ACP discussions di...

    Authors: Katie Wilkin, Mei Lan Fang and Judith Sixsmith
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:294
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. An increasing number of older people reach the end of life in care homes. The aim of this study is ... , implementation of the Gold Standards Framework for Care Homes (GSFCH), a quality improvement programme in palliative

    Authors: Sue Hall, Cassie Goddard, Frances Stewart and Irene J Higginson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2011 11:31
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Palliative care aims to contribute to pain relief, improvement ... patients with chronic conditions. Most of the palliative care protocols, programmes and units are predominantly focused ... but do not yet receiv...

    Authors: Junwen Yang-Huang, Ascensión Doñate-Martínez, Jorge Garcés, Maria Soledad Gimenez Campos, Raquel Valcarcel Romero, Maria-Eugenia Gas López, Adriano Fernandes, Mariana Camacho, Ana Gama, Sofia Reppou, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Gordon Linklater, Frances Hines, Jude Eze and Hein Raat
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:812
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. Living with a life-limiting illness, people with dementia benefit from palliative care which considers the holistic needs of the ... family. However, little is known about how palliative care may be best provided...

    Authors: Siobhan Fox, Jonathan Drennan, Suzanne Guerin, W. George Kernohan, Aileen Murphy, Niamh O’Connor, Aphie Rukundo and Suzanne Timmons
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:677
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. Timely palliative care in frail older persons remains challenging. Scales...

    Authors: Celine Van de Vyver, Anja Velghe, Hilde Baeyens, Jean-Pierre Baeyens, Julien Dekoninck, Nele Van Den Noortgate and Ruth Piers
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:499
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. We recruited adults aged ≥65-years from hospital-based multiprofessional palliative care services in London, Dublin, New York,...

    Authors: Irene J. Higginson, Barbara A. Daveson, R. Sean Morrison, Deokhee Yi, Diane Meier, Melinda Smith, Karen Ryan, Regina McQuillan, Bridget M. Johnston and Charles Normand
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2017 17:271
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  12. Evidence on the differences in symptom patterns between older palliative cancer and non-cancer patients is lacking. The purpose of the study was to determine the differences in symptoms between older hospitali...

    Authors: Aurélie Van Lancker, Ann Van Hecke, Sofie Verhaeghe, Matthias Mattheeuws and Dimitri Beeckman
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2018 18:40
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. A limited amount of research has examined how nature-based palliative rehabilitation can be implemented in nursing homes for people with dementia, even though evidence suggests that these gardens are underused...

    Authors: Tanja Schmidt, Marie Christoffersen Gramkow, Dorthe Varning Poulsen, Louise Holm Miller, Lene Wermuth and Ulrika K. Stigsdotter
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:819
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  14. It is essential to assess the need for palliative care and the life prognosis of elderly nursing ... examine the predictive capacity of NECPAL, the Palliative Prognosis Index, and the PROFUND index in...

    Authors: Ana Alejandra Esteban-Burgos, César Hueso-Montoro, Emilio Mota-Romero, Rafael Montoya-Juarez, Xavier Gomez-Batiste and María Paz Garcia-Caro
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:715
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Frailty refers to the reduction in homeostatic reserve resulting from an accumulation of physiological deficits over a lifetime. Frailty is common in older patients undergoing surgery and is an independent ris...

    Authors: J. Knight, K. Ayyash, K. Colling, J. Dhesi, V. Ewan, G. Danjoux, E. Kothmann, A. Mill, S. Taylor, D. Yates and Reema Ayyash
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:311
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  16. Amongst 34,556 decedents aged ≥70 years, 82% (n = 28,366) had ≥1 hospitalisation during the last year of life (median 2), and 21% > 3 hospitalisations. Twenty-five percent (n = 5485) of decedents attended ED duri...

    Authors: Danielle Ní Chróinín, David E. Goldsbury, Alexander Beveridge, Patricia M. Davidson, Afaf Girgis, Nicholas Ingham, Jane L. Phillips, Anne M. Wilkinson, Jane M. Ingham and Dianne L. O’Connell
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2018 18:317
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Thirteen categories of nursing practices for older patients with heart failure were generated: (1) Provide thorough acute care by a multidisciplinary team to alleviate dyspnea, ... with the patient and family and...

    Authors: Mana Doi, Yukie Maruyama, Akiko Kaneda, Maya Minamizaki, Masami Fukada and Yuka Kanoya
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:350
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. A consensus-building approach was undertaken in 2 Phases. The first phase deployed modified Delphi questionnaires to address and transform diverse opinions into group consensus. The second phase explored and prio...

    Authors: Patricia M. Harasym, Misha Afzaal, Sarah Brisbin, Aynharan Sinnarajah, Lorraine Venturato, Patrick Quail, Sharon Kaasalainen, Sharon Straus, Tamara Sussman, Navjot Virk and Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:326
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. End of life care for residents with advanced dementia in the aged care setting is complex. There is prolonged and ... significant symptom burden and infrequent access to specialist palliative care. Residential ag...

    Authors: Jessica A. L. Borbasi, Allison Tong, Alison Ritchie, Christopher J. Poulos and Josephine M. Clayton
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:306
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. The need for better end-of-life care for people with dementia has been acknowledged. ... people dying with dementia have less access to palliative care, yet little is known about the care provided to people with ...

    Authors: Zoi Triandafilidis, Sally Carr, Daneill Davis, Simon Chiu, Lucy Leigh, Sarah Jeong, Daniel Wong, Jacinta Hensby, Suzanne Lewis, John Attia and Nicholas Goodwin
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. Design: Systematic review of quantitative and qualitative original studies which examine the association between HHC and targeted outcomes. Interventions: HHC. Participants: At least 80% of study participants had...

    Authors: Ping-Jen Chen, Lisanne Smits, Rose Miranda, Jung-Yu Liao, Irene Petersen, Lieve Van den Block and Elizabeth L. Sampson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:80
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. People with advanced dementia often experience suboptimal end of life care (EoLC) with inadequate pain control, increased hospitalisation, and fewer palliative care interventions compared to those with cancer. Ex...

    Authors: Claire Bamford, Richard Lee, Emma McLellan, Marie Poole, Karen Harrison-Dening, Julian Hughes, Louise Robinson and Catherine Exley
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2018 18:302
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Challenges in prognosticating patients diagnosed with advanced dementia (AD) hinders timely referrals to palliative care. We aim to develop and validate a ... in patients with AD presenting at an acute care hospi...

    Authors: Palvinder Kaur, Palvannan Kannapiran, Sheryl Hui Xian Ng, Jermain Chu, Zhi Jun Low, Yew Yoong Ding, Woan Shin Tan and Allyn Hum
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:255
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Although quality-of-care domains for home-based primary and palliative programs have been proposed, they have had ... practice. Our aim was to evaluate the care provision in a community-based serious-illness care

    Authors: Christine E. Kistler, Matthew J. Van Dongen, Natalie C. Ernecoff, Timothy P. Daaleman and Laura C. Hanson
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:351
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Overall, symptoms in the last week and month of life did not vary by diagnosis. However, sub-group planned contrast analyses found those with dementia and chronic illness experienced more physical distress during...

    Authors: Michal Boyd, Rosemary Frey, Deborah Balmer, Jackie Robinson, Heather McLeod, Susan Foster, Julia Slark and Merryn Gott
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:137
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. A prospective cohort study “Home-based Longitudinal Investigation of the Multidisciplinary Team Integrated Care (HOLISTIC)” will be conducted and 600 ... function, wellbeing, shared decision making and advance care

    Authors: Jung-Yu Liao, Ping-Jen Chen, Yu-Lin Wu, Ching-Hsia Cheng, Sang-Ju Yu, Chi-Hsien Huang, Chia-Ming Li, Ying-Wei Wang, Kai-Ping Zhang, I-Te Liu, Hiroyuki Umegaki, Jun Hamano, Masanori Mori, Irene Petersen, Elizabeth L. Sampson and Chao A. Hsiung
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:511
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. A stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial was conducted in three large acute hospitals in Queensland, Australia between May 2020 and June 2021. The trial identified older people nearing the end of life using tw...

    Authors: Christine Brown, Xing J. Lee, Alison Farrington, Carla Shield, Hannah E. Carter, Steven M. McPhail, Magnolia Cardona, Kenneth Hillman, Leonie Callaway, Lindy Willmott, Ben P. White, Gillian Harvey, Nicholas Graves and Adrian G. Barnett
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:860
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Green care farms combine agriculture production with health-related, social and educational services. In the Netherlands, they form an alternative to traditional nursing homes for people with dementia. Green c...

    Authors: Kirsten D. Smit, Sascha R. Bolt, Bram de Boer, Hilde Verbeek and Judith M. M. Meijers
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:956
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  29. Population- based cross sectional survey in Flanders, Belgium. A stratified random sample of death certificates was drawn of people who died between 1 June and 30 November 2007. The effective study sample include...

    Authors: Tinne Smets, Rebecca Verhofstede, Joachim Cohen, Nele Van Den Noortgate and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:61
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Non-beneficial treatment affects a considerable proportion of older people in hospital, and some will choose to decline invasive treatments when they are approaching the end of their life. The Intervention for...

    Authors: Ella L. Bracci, Adrian G. Barnett, Christine Brown, Leonie Callaway, Magnolia Cardona, Hannah E. Carter, Nicholas Graves, Kenneth Hillman, Xing J. Lee, Steven M. McPhail, Ben P. White, Lindy Willmott and Gillian Harvey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:202
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  31. The length of stay in nursing homes before death in Sweden has significantly decreased, and nearly one-third of people die within 6 weeks of entering a nursing home. Support for the next of kin is one of the corn...

    Authors: Helena Rosén, Lina Behm, Birgitta Wallerstedt and Gerd Ahlström
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:324
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Geriatric evaluation and management has become standard care for community dwelling older adults following an acute admission to hospital. It is unclear whether this approach is beneficial for the frailest old...

    Authors: Penelope Harvey, Meg Storer, David John Berlowitz, Bruce Jackson, Anastasia Hutchinson and Wen Kwang Lim
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. A medication omission is an event where a prescribed medication is not taken before the next scheduled dose. Medication omissions are typically classed as errors within Residential Aged Care (RAC) homes, as th...

    Authors: Stephanie. M. Garratt, Ngaire. M. Kerse, Kathryn Peri and Monique. F. Jonas
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:276
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Dementia is a leading cause of death in developed nations. Despite an often distressing and symptom laden end of life, there are systematic barriers to accessing palliative care in older people dying of dementia....

    Authors: G Arendts, L Chenoweth, BJ Hayes, E Campbell, M Agar, C Etherton-Beer, K Spilsbury, K Howard, G Braitberg, M Cubitt, C Sheehan, L Magann, T Sudharshan, LM Schnitker, J Pearce, I Gilmore…
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:869
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  35. Advanced age is associated with life-threatening conditions at the end of life. Many of these persons at the end of their lives cannot make decisions because of the variable consciousness. They are able to mak...

    Authors: Mobina Golmohammadi, Salman Barasteh, Mohsen Mollahadi, Shadi Baba Ali and Abbas Ebadi
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:402
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Although dementia at the end of life is increasingly being studied, we lack prospective observational data on dying patients. In this study symptoms were observed in patients with dementia in the last days of ...

    Authors: Maartje S Klapwijk, Monique AA Caljouw, Mirjam C van Soest-Poortvliet, Jenny T van der Steen and Wilco P Achterberg
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2014 14:99
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. ...interRAI PURS differentiates risk of developing pressure ulcers among facility-based residents and home care recipients. As an output from an MDS ... suite instruments designed to follow persons across various...

    Authors: Jeff Poss, Katharine M Murphy, M Gail Woodbury, Heather Orsted, Kimberly Stevenson, Gail Williams, Shirley MacAlpine, Nancy Curtin-Telegdi and John P Hirdes
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2010 10:67
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that ... describe, in advance, the kind of health care they would want in the future. There ... but less likely to benefit from resource intensive care. Our study goal was...

    Authors: Michelle B. Cox, Margaret J. McGregor, Madison Huggins, Paige Moorhouse, Laurie Mallery and Katie Bauder
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:97
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. The number of older people experiencing homelessness in Australia is rising, yet there is a lack of specialised residential care for older people subject to homelessness with high care and palliative needs. To ad...

    Authors: Costanza Preti, Christopher J Poulos, Roslyn G Poulos, Najwa L Reynolds, Allison C Rowlands, Kyall Flakelar, Angela Raguz, Peter Valpiani, Steven G Faux and Claire MC O’Connor
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:249
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. The anticipatory prescribing of injectable controlled drugs (ICDs) by general practitioners (GPs) to care home residents is common practice and is believed to reduce emergency hospital transfers at the end-of-...

    Authors: Diana Teggi and Kate Woodthorpe
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:310
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. Hospitalisation rates for the older population have been increasing with end-of-life care becoming a more medicalised and costly experience. There is evidence that some of these patients received non-beneficia...

    Authors: Xing J. Lee, Alison Farrington, Hannah Carter, Carla Shield, Nicholas Graves, Steven M. McPhail, Gillian Harvey, Ben P. White, Lindy Willmott, Magnolia Cardona, Ken Hillman, Leonie Callaway and Adrian G. Barnett
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:262
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Many elders struggle with the decision to remain at home or to move to an alternative location of care. A person’s location of care can influence health and wellbeing. Healthcare organizations and policy maker...

    Authors: Laura Boland, France Légaré, Maria Margarita Becerra Perez, Matthew Menear, Mirjam Marjolein Garvelink, Daniel I. McIsaac, Geneviève Painchaud Guérard, Julie Emond, Nathalie Brière and Dawn Stacey
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2017 17:20
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  44. This paper details a subset of the findings from a participatory action research project exploring a palliative intervention in long-term care sites across Canada. The findings presented in ... to understanding c...

    Authors: Lorraine Smith-MacDonald, Lorraine Venturato, Paulette Hunter, Sharon Kaasalainen, Tamara Sussman, Lynn McCleary, Genevieve Thompson, Abigail Wickson-Griffiths and Shane Sinclair
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2019 19:128
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Ensuring a good death is one of the primary objectives of palliative care and end-of-life care. There is insufficient evidence regarding what defines ... constitutes a good death could help improve dementia care....

    Authors: Md Razib Mamun, Yoshihisa Hirakawa, KM Saif-Ur-Rahman, Young Jae Hong, Zean Song, Yuko Yoshida and Hiroshi Yatsuya
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2023 23:665
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Nursing home residents in Sweden are old, frail and usually have multiple morbidities which often make dying a prolonged suffering. It has been found that older persons at nursing homes receive far less palliative

    Authors: Helene Åvik Persson, Anna Sandgren, Carl-Johan Fürst, Gerd Ahlström and Lina Behm
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2018 18:134
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  47. Frailty is a dynamic condition that is clinically expected to change in older individuals during and around admission to an intermediate care (IC) facility. We aimed to characterize transitions between degrees...

    Authors: Jordi Amblàs-Novellas, Anna Torné, Ramon Oller, Joan Carles Martori, Joan Espaulella and Roman Romero-Ortuno
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:722
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The STADPLAN study is a cluster-randomised controlled trial including 27 home care services in Germany. It assesses the effect of an advance care planning (ACP) intervention delivered by trained nurses to olde...

    Authors: Katharina Silies, Tilman Huckle, Rieke Schnakenberg, Änne Kirchner, Almuth Berg, Juliane Köberlein-Neu, Gabriele Meyer, Falk Hoffmann and Sascha Köpke
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2022 22:345
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  49. General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in the care of people with dementia (PwD). However, the role of the German Dementia Guideline in primary care remains unclear. The main objective of the present stud...

    Authors: Sonia Lech, Julie L. O’Sullivan, Johanna Drewelies, Wolfram Herrmann, Robert P. Spang, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Johanna Nordheim and Paul Gellert
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:717
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Multiple factors influence the end-of-life (EoL) care and experience of poor quality services by culturally- and spiritually-diverse groups. Access to EoL services e.g. health and social supports at home or in...

    Authors: Mei Lan Fang, Judith Sixsmith, Shane Sinclair and Glen Horst
    Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2016 16:107
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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