The significance of end-of-life dreams and visions

Nursing Times

Volumn 110, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 22-24

  Grant, Pei ^a   Wright, Scott ^a   Depner, Rachel ^a   Luczkiewicz, Debra ^a  

^a Center for Hospice and Palliative Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Deathbed visions; Dying; End of life experiences; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH; DREAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DEATH; DREAMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84904413118     PISSN: 09547762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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