Discussing dying in the diaspora: Attitudes towards advance care planning among first generation Dutch and Italian migrants in rural Australia

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 86-93

  Sinclair, Craig ^a,b   Smith, Jessica ^a,b   Toussaint, Yann ^b   Auret, Kirsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Australia; Cross cultural; End of life; Foucauldian; Migration

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; DECISION MAKING; DIASPORA; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRANT; MIGRATION; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DUTCH; DYING; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOGRAPHY; EUTHANASIA; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ITALIAN; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIGRATION; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; DUTCHMAN; ETHNICITY; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; ITALIAN (CITIZEN); MIGRANT; PATIENT CARE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

AUSTRALIA; NETHERLANDS;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL; END-OF-LIFE; FOUCAULDIAN; MIGRATION;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84894034025     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.032     Document Type: Article

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