Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/nursing.1.003
Commentary on “Discussing diabetes, palliative care and end of life care: choosing the right language”
Trisha Dunning AM1,*
- 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Corresponding Author
Trisha Dunning AM, trisha.dunning@deakin.edu.au
Received Date: May 31, 2021
Accepted Date: July 22, 2021
Dunning T. Commentary on “Discussing diabetes, palliative care and end of life care: choosing the right language”. Arch Nurs Healthc. 2021;1(1):5-7.
Copyright: © 2021 Dunning T. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Commentary on “Discussing diabetes, palliative care and end of life care: choosing the right language”
Our paper entitled “Discussing diabetes, palliative care and end of life care: choosing the right language” reports a core aspect of our research program, which focuses on older people with diabetes, palliative and end of life care for people with diabetes, and the effect of language on clear communication, that commenced in 2009 [1].