Older adults' attitudes to death, palliative treatment and hospice care

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 402-410

  Catt, Susan ^a   Blanchard, Martin ^a   Addington Hall, Julia ^b   Zis, Maria ^c   Blizard, Robert ^a   King, Michael ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aged; Attitude to death; Data collection; Eighty and over; Palliative care; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; ATTITUDE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DYING; ELDERLY CARE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 23844496840     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216305pm1037oa     Document Type: Article

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