Fin de vie du patient atteint de démence.
(2009) Gérontologie et société - cahiers de la Fondation nationale de gérontologie — Vol. 128-129, p. 243-255 (2009)
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- (en) END OF LIFE OF DEMENTIA PATIENTS People suffering from degenerative brain diseases of the Alzheimer type gradually reach advanced stages of the disease and prematurely die of the complications involved. The various forms of dementia are terminal diseases, which shorten life expectancy just as do chronic diseases such as heart diseases and some forms of cancer whose unfavourable prognostic seems more acceptable. There is little knowledge of the inherent characteristics and prognostic at these advanced stages of dementia syndromes. This means that life’s end is too often actively and technically medicated. The article brings information, which is helpful in recognising these stages and their level of acuteness. When the time comes it is also helpful in deciding in a coherent manner on a palliative approach, which would relieve painful symptoms and avoid artificial treatment or feeding, which would have become useless.
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Swine, C., Schoevaerdts, D., & Choteau, B. (2009). Fin de vie du patient atteint de démence. Gérontologie et société - cahiers de la Fondation nationale de gérontologie, 128-129, 243-255. https://doi.org/10.3917/gs.128.0243 (Original work published 2009)