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Direct linkRich, Shayna E.; Williams, Christianna S.; Zimmerman, Sheryl – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose: To identify differences in perspectives that may complicate the process of joint decision making at the end of life, this study determined the agreement of family and staff perspectives about end-of-life experiences in nursing homes and residential care/assisted living communities and whether family and staff roles, involvement in care,…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Familiarity, Death, Interaction
Imagining the Alternatives to Life Prolonging Treatments: Elders' Beliefs about the Dying Experience
Winter, Laraine; Parker, Barbara; Schneider, Melissa – Death Studies, 2007
Deciding for or against a life-prolonging treatment represents a choice between prolonged life and death. When the death alternative is not described, individuals must supply their own assumptions. How do people imagine the experience of dying? The authors asked 40 elderly people open-ended questions about dying without 4 common life-prolonging…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Patients, Terminal Illness, Death
