Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 20, 2000: Focus on the End of Life: Scientific & Social Issues

by Lawton, M. Powell

• ISBN13: 9780826113658
• ISBN10: 0826113656
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

The 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Contributors	ix
Forthcoming Contents for Volume 21	xi
An Overview of the End of Life	1	(15)
M. Powell Lawton
Ethics and Spirituality: Strangers at the End of Life?	16	(23)
Michael Bevins
Thomas Cole
Medical Decision Making Toward the End of Life: Ethical, Economic, and Health Policy Implications	39	(25)
Robert M. Kaplan
Diane L. Schneider
Quality-of-Life Trajectories of Elders in the End of Life	64	(33)
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Terri R. Fried
Stanislav V. Kasl
Ellen Idler
Measuring Quality of Medical Care for Dying Persons and Their Families: Preliminary Suggestions for Accountability	97	(23)
Joan M. Teno
Kristen McNiff
Joanne Lynn
Comfort in Older Adults at the End of Life	120	(24)
Ann C. Hurley
Ladislav Volicer
Ellen K. Mahoney
Friendship at the End of Life	144	(19)
Brian de Vries
John A. Blando
Healthy Elders' Early Decisions for End-of-Life Living and Dying	163	(30)
Victor G. Cicirelli
Hospice and Its Role in Improving End-of-Life Care	193	(31)
Susan C. Miller
Vincent Mor
Barbara Gage
Kristen Coppola
End of Life in Nursing Homes	224	(35)
Miriam S. Moss
The Ethnography of the End of Life: The Nursing Home and Other Residential Settings	259	(14)
Robert L. Rubinstein
Clinical Aspects of End-of-Life Care	273	(36)
Cynthia X. Pan
Diane E. Meier
Index	309