Coping Strategies in the Presence of One's Own Impending Death from Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-22

  Sand, Lisa ^a,b   Olsson, Mariann ^b   Strang, Peter ^b  

^a Unit for Palliative Medicine and Advanced Medical Home Care   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cancer; coping; death; Existential; hermeneutics; home care; palliative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERVIEW; MAGIC; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57849103439     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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