E-book
Focus on the end of life : scientific and social issues
Record details
- ISBN: 0826116612
- ISBN: 9780826116611
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 326).
remote - Publisher: New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2001.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An overview of the end of life / M. Powell Lawton -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Terminal care Right to die Hospice care Advance directives (Medical care) Death |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
