Interviews on end-of-life care with older people: Reflections on six European studies

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1588-1600

  Pleschberger, Sabine ^a   Seymour, Jane E ^b   Payne, Sheila ^c   Deschepper, Reginald ^d   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^e   Rurup, Mette L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

death and dying; end of life issues; ethics; health care, users' experiences; interviews; older people; relationships; research, access to participants; research, cross cultural

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BELGIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BELGIUM; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 80053313422     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732311415286     Document Type: Review

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