The geriatric cancer experience at the end of life: Testing an adapted model

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 664-673

  Buck, Harleah G ^a   Overcash, Janine ^b   McMillan, Susan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOSPICE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TERMINAL CARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 85047696967     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.ONF.664-673     Document Type: Article

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