Dignity therapy implementation in a community-based hospice setting

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 729-734

  Montross, Lori ^a   Winters, Kathryn D ^b   Irwin, Scott A ^a  

^a Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DIGNITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOPE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFE; LOVE; MALE; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WORKER; TERMINAL DISEASE; VOCATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 79958181415     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0449     Document Type: Article

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