Supporting palliative care clients who live alone: Nurses' perspectives on improving quality of care

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Supporting palliative care clients who live alone: Nurses' perspectives on improving quality of care

Background: Terminally ill people who live alone at home are disadvantaged in terms of their places of care and death and health outcomes. There is a need to trial models of care that can extend the period of care at home for as long as possible for this group. The objective was to explore the exper...

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Main Authors:	Aoun, Samar, Breen, Lauren, Skett, K.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41381

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