Does health status affect perceptions of factors influencing dignity at the end of life?

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1030-1038

  Albers, Gwenda ^a   Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Deliens, Luc ^a,b   De Vet, Henrica C W ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

advance care planning; dignity; End of life; palliative care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; END OF LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; LIFE; LIVING WILL; MALE; RELIGION; SENESCENCE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878829985     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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