End-of-life care: making choices.

Julie Foster and colleagues explore how the end-of-life care needs of people with learning disabilities have been addressed in recent policy guidance, and consider how the implementation of the Preferred Place of Care process can enable a person-centred approach to be embraced by all professionals,...

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Published in:Learning Disability Practice Vol. 9; no. 7; pp. 18 - 23
Main Authors: Foster J, Harrison T, Whalley H, Pemberton C, Storey L
Format: case study pictorial Journal Article
Published: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The) Sep2006
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:Julie Foster and colleagues explore how the end-of-life care needs of people with learning disabilities have been addressed in recent policy guidance, and consider how the implementation of the Preferred Place of Care process can enable a person-centred approach to be embraced by all professionals, under the leadership of a learning disability nurse.