You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 15, Issue 2
  • Timely short-term specialised palliative home care for older people with frailty and their family: a mixed-methods pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation

Article info

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Palliative care
Original research
Timely short-term specialised palliative home care for older people with frailty and their family: a mixed-methods pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation

Authors

  • Kim de Nooijer End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nele Van Den Noortgate End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Geriatric Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter Pype End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frailty+ trial group
    Google scholar articles
  • Lara Pivodic End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lieve Van den Block End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kim de Nooijer; kim.de.nooijer{at}vub.be
View Full Text

Citation

de Nooijer K, Van Den Noortgate N, Pype P, et al
Timely short-term specialised palliative home care for older people with frailty and their family: a mixed-methods pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
BMJ Open 2025;15:e077495. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077495

Publication history

  • Received July 6, 2023
  • Accepted January 10, 2025
  • First published February 3, 2025.
Online issue publication 
February 03, 2025
Previous versions
Review history

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.