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長期入院型医療制度を問う : 高齢者の終末期医療から
| Title: | 長期入院型医療制度を問う : 高齢者の終末期医療から |
| Authors: | 高波, 千代子 Browse this author |
| Keywords: | long-term care, tube feeding, dementia, terminal care, palliative approach |
| Issue Date: | 17-May-2013 |
| Publisher: | 北海道大学公共政策大学院 |
| Journal Title: | 年報 公共政策学 |
| Journal Title(alt): | Annals, Public Policy Studies |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Start Page: | 291 |
| End Page: | 307 |
| Abstract: | People in Japan can benefit from the healthcare based on a universal public insurance system, while the average length of hospital stay is the longest in advanced countries. Most patients in the long-term care hospitals are the bedridden elderly living on tube feedings. Not only do the majority of the elderly have dementia; they generally have little chance of expressing their own words when they are offered life-prolonging treatments. The elderly may require a terminal care with a palliative approach when they are dying due to the ageing process, that is, not only as a consequence of an incurable disease. |
| Type: | bulletin (other) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/53311 |
| Appears in Collections: | 年報 公共政策学 = Annals, public policy studies > 第7号
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