End-of-Life Care and the Effects of Bereavement on Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
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- 13 November 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (20) , 1936-1942
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa035373
Abstract
Although family caregiving has been intensively studied in the past decade, little attention has been paid to the impact of end-of-life care on caregivers who are family members of persons with dementia or to the caregivers' responses to the death of the patient.Keywords
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