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Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics [electronic resource] : Volume 20, Focus on the end of Life : scientific and social issues / M. Powell Lawton, volume editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics ; v. 20.
- Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics, 0198-8794 ; v. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Advance directives (Medical care).
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Hospice care.
- Right to die.
- Terminal care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The study of ""the end of life"" has become a major focus on medicine, the social sciences, ethics, and religion. This volume brings together the latest research on issues around death and dying, life's attributes as it nears death, planning and preparation for death, and care and intervetion-related issues. This evidence-based finding of this volume will help shape how we approach the topic for years to come.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Forthcoming Contents for Volume 21; 1. An Overview of the End of Life; 2. Ethics and Spirituality: Strangers at the End of Life?; 3. Medical Decision Making Toward the End of Life: Ethical, Economic, and Health Policy Implications; 4. Quality-of-Life Trajectories of Elders in the End of Life; 5. Measuring Quality of Medical Care for Dying Persons and Their Families: Preliminary Suggestions for Accountability; 6. Comfort in Older Adults at the End of Life; 7. Friendship at the End of Life
- 8. Healthy Elders' Early Decisions for End-of-Life Living and Dying9. Hospice and Its Role in Improving End-of-Life Care; 10. End of Life in Nursing Homes; 11. The Ethnography of the End of Life: The Nursing Home and Other Residential Settings; 12. Clinical Aspects of End-of-Life Care; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-80622-6
- 9786611806224
- 0-8261-1661-2
- OCLC:
- 437109885
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