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Focus on the End of Life: Scientific and Social Issues

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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.

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An Overview of the End of Life, Lawton

Ethics and Spirituality: Strangers at the End of Life? Michael Bevins, Thomas Cole

Medical Decision Making Toward the End of Life: Ethical, Economic, and Health Policy Implications, Robert M. Kaplan, Diane L. Schneider

Quality of Life Trajectories of Elders in the End of Life, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Stanislav V. Kasl, Terri R. Fried, Ellen Idler

Measuring Quality of Medical Care for Dying Persons and Their Families, Joan M. Teno, Kristen Mc Niff, and Joanne Lynn

Comfort in Older Adults at the End of Life, Ann C. Hurley, Ladislav Volicer, Ellen K. Mahoney

Friendship at the End of Life, Brian De Vries, John A. Blando

Healthy Eldersí Early Decisions for End-of-Life Living and Dying, Victor Cicirelli

Hospice and Its Role in Improving End of Life Care, Susan C. Miller, Kristen Coppola, Barbara Gage, Vincent Mor

End of Life in Nursing Homes, Miriam Moss

Clinical Aspects of End-of-Life Care, Cynthia Pan, Diane Meier

The Ethnography of Preparing for the End of Life, Robert Rubinstein

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 326 ● ISBN 9780826116611 ● File size 20.2 MB ● Publisher Springer Publishing Company ● Published 2000 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5847366 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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