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"Just live for today" — living, caring, ageing and dying
Author(s)	Glennys Howarth
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 18, part 6, November 1998
Pages	pp 673-689
Keywords	Death ; Dying ; Attitude ; Spouses as carers ; Social surveys ; London.
Annotation	There is an assumption in western societies that death in old age is not only "natural" but also "easy". It is often characterised as death which occurs at the end of life with goals complete. By contrast, death in youth is a traumatic and untimely end. This paper draws on interviews from a study on quality of life of people aged over 75, and living in their own homes in a north London borough. It focuses on the issues raised by the old people themselves, when given the opportunity to talk about death and dying in old age. In doing so, attitudes to death and dying are separated into "death of self" and "death of other". Each of these categories is then divided thematically according to the issues raised by the respondents. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990416003 A
Classmark	CW: CX: DP: P6:SN: 3F: 82L
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