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Title:

Focus on the end of life : scientific and social issues / M. Powell Lawton, volume editor.

Publisher:

Springer Publishing Co.,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xii, 326 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Death.
Advance directives (Medical care)
Hospice care.
Right to die.
Terminal care
Advance Directives.
Hospice care.
Right to die.
Terminal care

Other Authors:

Lawton, M. Powell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

An Clinical aspects of end-of-life care / Cynthia X. Pan and Diane E. Meier. Ethics and spirituality / Michael Bevins and Thomas Cole -- Medical decision making toward the end of life / Robert M. Kaplan and Diane L. Schneider -- Quality-of-life trajectories of elders in the end of life / Elizabeth H. Bradley . . . [et al.] -- Measuring quality of medical care for dying persons and their families / Joan M. Teno -- Comfort in older adults at the end of life / Ann C. Hurley -- Friendship at the end of life / Brian de Vries and John A. Blando -- Healthy elders' early decisions for end-of-life living and dying / Victor G. Cicirelli -- Hospice and its role in improving end-of-life care / Susan C. Miller . . . [et al.] -- End of life in nursing homes / Miriam S. Moss -- Ethnography of the end of life / Robert L. Rubinstein -- Clinical aspects of end-of-life care / Cynthia X. Pan and Diane E. Meier.

Series:

Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics ; v. 20

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45622410

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)