Factors influencing life-sustaining treatment decisions in a community sample of families

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 226-234

  Karel, Michele J ^a,b   Gatz, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0030036511     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.11.2.226     Document Type: Article

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