Death anxiety in institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly people in Spain

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-76

  Moreno, Rafael Portal ^a   De La Fuenta Solana, Emilia I ^b   Rico, Manuel Aleixandre ^b   Fernández, Luis Manuel Lozano ^c  

^a The Seneca Gerontological Centre of Investigation   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 57649245280     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.58.1.d     Document Type: Article

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