Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
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Birchely G

University of Bristol, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Room G.04, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK;

Biography

Giles Birchley is an experienced children's intensive care nurse working in the University of Bristol's multidisciplinary Centre for Ethics in Medicine. He was awarded his doctorate in 2015, for a doctoral project that combined social science and philosophical methods to investigate how decisions are/ought to be made in the best interests of critically ill infants - with a focus on those where there is a question of whether treatment or non-treatment is best. 

Publications

Addressing Decision Making on End of Life Care for People with Dementia

Dementia affects approximately 36 million people worldwide and the number living with dementia is expected to increase to 66 million by 2030 [1]. Dementia is recognised as a public health priority which urgently needs attention by the World Health Organisation [2]. Despite recent national and international policy initiatives, people with dementia c... Read More»

Jones K, Birchely G, Clare L, Huxtable R, Walter T and Dixon J

Commentary: J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2017, 3:3

DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000178

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