Advance Care Planning: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

Innovation in Aging

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Carr, Deborah ^a   Luth, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Death and dying; Disparities; End of life; Epidemiology; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045140912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23995300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igx012     Document Type: Article

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