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End of life research: focus on older populations
 — presented at the Integrative Workshop on End of Life Research, Bethesda, Maryland, October 22-23, 2001
Author(s)Kathleen C Buckwalter
Corporate AuthorIntegrative Workshop on End of Life Research, Bethesda, Maryland, 2001, Gerontological Society of America
Journal titleThe Gerontologist, vol 42, special issue 3, October 2002
Pages134 pp
KeywordsTerminal care ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Social ethics ; Research ; Conference proceedings ; United States of America.
AnnotationThe workshop's purpose was to define the current state of the science for end of life in older people, and to identify future directions for US National Institutes of Health (NIH) research initiatives. This special issue of the Gerontologist comprises articles, commentaries and research recommendations for the workshop's four themes: the experience of dying - spirituality; end-of-life organisations, settings, and transitions; methods and measurement in end-of-life research; and ethical implications of end-of-life research. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-021216214 B
ClassmarkLV: EX: TQ: 3A: 6M: 7T

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