Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · December 2015
Geriatrician and nongeriatrician faculty need instruction as teachers to provide quality training for a broader community of physicians who can care for the expanding population of older adults. Educators at Duke University designed a program to equip geri ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · September 2012
OBJECTIVES: To examine the characteristics of hospice enrollees with dementia who were discharged alive because their condition stabilized or improved and predictors of death in the year after discharge. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of clinical and adm ...
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Journal ArticleClinical Geriatrics · November 1, 2011
This article is the third in a continuing series on cancer in older adults. The goal of this series of articles is to highlight the ways in which the diagnosis and management of cancer in older adults differ from the diagnosis and management of cancer in y ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2010
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller, Optimism (1903) Why focus on the elderly? Geriatric patients are complex, do not fit in the traditional biomedical model, and are underrepresented in cancer r ...
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Journal ArticleJ Palliat Med · October 2006
Despite disparities in health care access and quality, African Americans are underrepresented in many areas of clinical investigation, including research in end-of-life care. Because of the importance of surrogate reports in assessing the quality of end-of ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · April 2005
Spirituality is an important part of African-American culture and is often cited as an explanation for the more-aggressive treatment preferences of some African Americans at the end of life. This paper reviews the literature on spiritual beliefs that may i ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of Long-Term Care · July 1, 2004
The percentage of Medicare recipients who die in nursing homes continues to grow. This necessitates skills and competencies in end-of-life care, despite the current scarcity of training in medical and nursing schools. The principles and tenets of Palliativ ...
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