End-of-life concerns and care preferences: Congruence among terminally ill elders and their family caregivers

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 273-297

  Gardner, Daniel ^a   Kramer, Betty ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; LIVING WILL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 77149172552     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.60.3.e     Document Type: Article

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