title: A hospital palliative care ward for elderly people.
abstract: In order to improve inpatient facilities for terminal care for elderly people, a special ward has been opened to maximize the quality of remaining life and to achieve 'death with dignity'. The ward is based within a geriatric department and in a District General Hospital. The work of the first year is described. It is considered to have been successful.
authors.affiliation: Elderly Health Unit, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Severs
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Wilkins
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D012297:Right to Die; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*