Quality of hospice care for individuals with dementia.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Experiences and perspectives of older adults in nursing homes and their families participating in advance care planning: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.BMC palliative care · 2025
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2. Hospice interventions for persons living with dementia, family members and clinicians: A systematic review.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022
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3. Developing and Testing a Two-Part Intervention: Enhancing Dementia Instruction and Tool in Home Hospice Care.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025
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4. Promoting Advance Care Planning for Persons with Dementia: Study Protocol for the LEAD (Life-Planning in Early Alzheimer's and Other Dementias) Clinical Trial.OBM integrative and complimentary medicine · 2023
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5. Impact of Comorbid Dementia on Patterns of Hospice Use.Journal of palliative medicine · 2022
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6. Development of a Dementia-Focused End-of-Life Planning Tool: The LEAD Guide (Innovation in aging · 2019
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7. Hospice Care for Patients With Dementia in the United States: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2018
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8. Distressing Symptoms, Disability, and Hospice Services at the End of Life: Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018
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9. Nursing Home Staff Palliative Care Knowledge and Practices: Results of a Large Survey of Frontline Workers.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2015
   Article
10. Advanced Dementia.The New England journal of medicine · 2015
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11. CLINICAL PRACTICE. Advanced Dementia.The New England journal of medicine · 2015
    Review
12. Functional trajectories in the year before hospice.Annals of family medicine
    Article

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  Quality of hospice care for individuals with dementia.2013

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