'I live for today': A qualitative study investigating older people's attitudes to advance planning

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-59

  Samsi, Kritika ^a   Manthorpe, Jill ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advance planning; Dementia; Mental Capacity Act; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVING WILL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78650153789     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00948.x     Document Type: Article

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