Planning for end-of-life care: Black-white differences in the completion of advance directives

Research on Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 428-449

  Gerst, Kerstin ^a   Burr, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directive; Decision making; Diversity; End of life; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849086820     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027508316618     Document Type: Article

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