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Author Staton, Jana, author.

Title A few months to live : different paths to life's end / Jana Staton, Roger Shuy, Ira Byock
Published Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 358 pages)
Contents Study participants -- Communicating about death and dying -- Planning and choices -- Professional care and doctor-patient communication -- Knowledge of illness and attitudes toward pain and death -- Daily life and meaningful activities -- Family caregiving experience -- Support and lack of support for family caregivers -- Personal growth, meaning and spirituality -- The final days of life -- Memorials at the end of life -- Some directions for understanding the end of life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Death -- Social aspects -- Montana -- Missoula -- Case studies
Death -- Montana -- Missoula -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies
Terminally ill -- Montana -- Missoula -- Case studies
Terminally ill -- Home care -- Montana -- Missoula -- Case studies
Caregivers -- Montana -- Missoula -- Case studies
Health attitudes.
Attitude to Health
Caregivers -- psychology
Terminally Ill -- psychology
Health attitudes.
Caregivers.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Death -- Social aspects.
Terminally ill.
Terminally ill -- Home care.
Menschenwürde
Sterben
Montana -- Missoula.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Shuy, Roger W., author.
Byock, Ira, author.
ISBN 1589012267
9781589012264