The Phantom of Death Improving Quality of Life: You Live Until You Die

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 555-562

  Vargens, Octavio Muniz da Costa ^a   Berterö, Carina ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cancer; interpretive phenomenology; living until you die; quality of life; reevaluating; secondary analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST TUMOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84867734394     PISSN: 10499091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049909111432450     Document Type: Article

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