End-of-Life Planning and Health Care

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences: Eighth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 375-394

  Carr, Deborah ^a   Luth, Elizabeth ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Death and dying; Ethics; Living will

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967214940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-417235-7.00018-4     Document Type: Chapter

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