Development and testing of an informative guide about palliative care for family caregivers of people with advanced dementia

Abstract Background Since people with advanced dementia are usually not able to make complex decisions, it is usually the family caregivers, as proxies, who have to decide on treatments and their termination. However, these decisions are difficult for the caregivers to make, as they are often inadeq...

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Main Authors: Lina Riedl, Manuela Bertok, Julia Hartmann, Julia Fischer, Carola Rossmeier, Andreas Dinkel, Marion Ortner, Janine Diehl-Schmid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12904-020-0533-3