'The calendar is just about up': Older adults with multiple chronic conditions reflect on death and dying

Ageing and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1399-1417

  Clarke, Laura Hurd ^a   Korotchenko, Alexandra ^a   Bundon, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ageing; Chronic conditions; death; dying; end of life planning; later life

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELDERLY POPULATION; MORTALITY; SUICIDE;

EID: 84867495901     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11001061     Document Type: Article

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