Hospice or home? Expectations of end-of-life care among white and Chinese older people in the UK

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 872-890

  Seymour, Jane ^a   Payne, Sheila ^b   Chapman, Alice ^b   Holloway, Margaret ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese; End of life care; Ethnicity; Home care; Hospice; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHINA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 35748941228     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01045.x     Document Type: Article

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