Meaning and Practice of Palliative Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Life Limiting Illnesses

Meaning and Practice of Palliative Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Life Limiting Illnesses

Objective. To illustrate distinctions and intersections of palliative care (PC) and end-of-life (EOL) services through examples from case-centered data of older adults cared for during a four-year ethnographic study of an acute care hospital palliative care consultation service. Methods. Qualitative...

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Main Authors:	Bethel Ann Powers, Sally A. Norton, Madeline H. Schmitt, Timothy E. Quill, Maureen Metzger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:	Journal of Aging Research
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/406164
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