Coping with terminal illness: The experience of attending specialist palliative day care

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1211-1218

  Bradley, Sarah Elizabeth ^a   Frizelle, Dorothy ^a   Johnson, Miriam ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c St Catherine's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STRESS; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 78049316316     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0131     Document Type: Article

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