Social support and end-of-life issues for small town Japanese elderly

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 131-137

  Tagaya, Akira ^a   Okuno, Shigeyo ^a   Tamura, Masae ^a   Davis, Anne J ^a  

^a NAGANO COLLEGE OF NURSING   (Japan)

Author keywords

Death; Elderly; Japanese culture; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442504168     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2018.2000.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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