Planning for end of life care within lay-led chronic illness self-management training: The significance of 'death awareness' and biographical context in participant accounts

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 982-993

  Sanders, Caroline ^a   Rogers, Anne ^a   Gately, Claire ^a   Kennedy, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Biographical disruption; Chronic illness; Death and dying; Expert patients; HIV; Self management training; UK

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; TRAINING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEATH EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CARE; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIVING WILLS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38749084221     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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