-
- Jean-Christophe Mino and Marie-Odile Frattini.
- Palliative Care Unit, Pitié Salpêtrière Medical School Hospital, and National Center of Resources for Palliative Care FX Bagnoud, 6 avenue Lemierre, 75980 Paris Cedex 20, France.
- J Palliat Care. 2009 Jan 1; 25 (4): 257-63.
IntroductionIn France, the government's plan to combat Alzheimer's disease takes into consideration mostly the beginnings of the disease; it does not deal with the sufferers' end of life. For this pathology, the very idea of a palliative care phase and its definition are not straightforward.MethodThe object of this qualitative study was to clarify this idea through a series of interviews with 44 professionals.ResultsThe study describes three successive phases in the disease trajectory, revealed by changes in the logic of care: the stimulation phase, the chronic palliative care phase, and the terminal palliative phase.ConclusionAlzheimer's disease has a specific phase of chronic palliative care. It presents, for professionals, several types of problems related to communication, pain, and feeding.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..