Recent trends in advance directives at nursing home admission and one year after admission

Gerontologist

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-381

  McAuley, William J ^a   Buchanan, Robert J ^b   Travis, Shirley S ^a   Wang, Suojin ^c   Kim, Myungsuk ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life; Health care decisions; Late life long term care; Long term care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL WORK; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33744473556     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/46.3.377     Document Type: Article

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