03292nam 2200661Ia 450 991045436010332120200520144314.01-281-80622-697866118062240-8261-1661-2(CKB)1000000000704974(EBL)423570(OCoLC)437109885(SSID)ssj0000156340(PQKBManifestationID)11946842(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156340(PQKBWorkID)10123703(PQKB)10074616(MiAaPQ)EBC423570(Au-PeEL)EBL423570(CaPaEBR)ebr10265623(EXLCZ)99100000000070497420010313d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnnual review of gerontology and geriatrics[electronic resource] Volume 20Focus on the end of Life scientific and social issues /M. Powell Lawton, volume editorNew York Springer Pub. Co.c20011 online resource (345 p.)Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics,0198-8794 ;v. 20Description based upon print version of record.0-8261-1365-6 Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Forthcoming Contents for Volume 21; 1. An Overview of the End of Life; 2. Ethics and Spirituality: Strangers at the End of Life?; 3. Medical Decision Making Toward the End of Life: Ethical, Economic, and Health Policy Implications; 4. Quality-of-Life Trajectories of Elders in the End of Life; 5. Measuring Quality of Medical Care for Dying Persons and Their Families: Preliminary Suggestions for Accountability; 6. Comfort in Older Adults at the End of Life; 7. Friendship at the End of Life8. Healthy Elders' Early Decisions for End-of-Life Living and Dying9. Hospice and Its Role in Improving End-of-Life Care; 10. End of Life in Nursing Homes; 11. The Ethnography of the End of Life: The Nursing Home and Other Residential Settings; 12. Clinical Aspects of End-of-Life Care; IndexThe study of ""the end of life"" has become a major focus on medicine, the social sciences, ethics, and religion. This volume brings together the latest research on issues around death and dying, life's attributes as it nears death, planning and preparation for death, and care and intervetion-related issues. This evidence-based finding of this volume will help shape how we approach the topic for years to come.Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics ;v. 20.Advance directives (Medical care)DeathSocial aspectsHospice careRight to dieTerminal careElectronic books.Advance directives (Medical care)DeathSocial aspects.Hospice care.Right to die.Terminal care.362.6Lawton M. Powell(Mortimer Powell),1923-2001.978007MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454360103321Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics2227998UNINA