Receptivity of hospitalized older adults and family caregivers to prognostic information about aging, injury, and frailty: a qualitative study - Maxwell CA, Mixon AS, Conner E, Phillippi JC.

BACKGROUND: Frailty is the leading prognosticator for poor outcomes and palliative care among older adults. Delivery of negative prognostic information entails potentially difficult conversations about decline and death. OBJECTIVE: The study aims were ...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news