Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An overview of the end of life / M. Powell Lawton
  • Ethics and spirituality / Michael Bevins and Thomas Cole
  • Medical decision making toward the end of life / Robert M. Kaplan and Diane L. Schneider
  • Quality-of-life trajectories of elders in the end of life / Elizabeth H. Bradley [and others]
  • Measuring quality of medical care for dying persons and their families / Joan M. Teno
  • Comfort in older adults at the end of life / Ann C. Hurley
  • Friendship at the end of life / Brian de Vries and John A. Blando
  • Healthy elders' early decisions for end-of-life living and dying / Victor G. Cicirelli
  • Hospice and its role in improving end-of-life care / Susan C. Miller [and others]
  • End of life in nursing homes / Miriam S. Moss
  • Ethnography of the end of life / Robert L. Rubinstein
  • Clinical aspects of end-of-life care / Cynthia X. Pan and Diane E. Meier.