Racial differences in end-of-life planning: Why don't blacks and latinos prepare for the inevitable?

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Carr, Deborah ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954427686     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.63.1.a     Document Type: Article

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