Topic Resources

PALLIATIVE CARE

Journal Articles

Evers, MM, Meier, DE, Morrison, RS. (2002). Assessing differences in care needs and service utilization in geriatric palliative care patients. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 23(5), 424-32.

AJN articles on Palliative Care and Symptom Management: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/AJNArticles.htm

Matzo, ML. (2004). Palliative Care: Prognostication and the chronically ill. American Journal of Nursing, 104(9), 40-49. Access at: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/pdf/PalliativeCareAJN15.pdf

Fried, LP, Tangen, C, Walston, J et al. (2001). Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotype. Journal of Gerontological Society…56A: M1-M1.

Soscia, J. (2003). Assessing pain in cognitively impaired older adults with cancer. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 7 (2), 174-7. 2355.

Baggs, JG & Mick, DJ. (2000). Collaboration: A tool to address complex ethical issues for elderly intensive care unit patients near the end of life. Journal of Gerontological Nursing 2000 41-7.

Westphal CG, Campbell ML. (May 2002). Nebulized morphine for terminal dyspnea. American Journal of Nursing. (Supplement), 11-15.


Last updated - March 2006