Facilitating advance care planning with ethnically diverse groups of frail, low-income elders in the USA: Perspectives of care managers on challenges and recommendations

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-177

  Kwak, Jung ^a   Ko, Eunjeong ^b   Kramer, Betty J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Care management; Culture; Diversity; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PATIENT CARE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895028841     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12073     Document Type: Article

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