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The oldest old: the newest focus in end-of-life care?

https://smw.ch/journalfile/view/article/ezm_smw/en/smw.2020.20206/dae77bb75e4e924a6194fe4212504b79cd352ad9/smw_2020_20206.pdf/rsrc/jf

“Medical end-of-life decisions in the oldest old in Switzerland” examines the differences between the oldest old and younger patients in terms of the frequency of various end-of-life decisions such as intensified alleviation of pain and other symptoms and, most notably, with-holding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments.

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This research is funded by Canadian Frailty Network (known previously as Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network, TVN), supported by Government of Canada through Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program.

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