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Peer reviewedBaugher, Robert J.; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1990
Examined responses of 1,110 terminally ill persons with cancer at varying time periods prior to death. Disengagement and Objective Self-Awareness theories, which suggest that people nearing death would increase desire to separate from others, were not supported. Found few differences in responses of persons further from, or closer to, death.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cancer, Death, Emotional Adjustment
Download full textCarroll Community Coll., Westminster, MD. – 1998
These two volumes contain research papers and personal reflections developed as culminating projects by adult students involved in workplace literacy classes in nursing homes, hospitals, and home care agencies. The first volume contains 18 papers: "What You Need to Know about Cancer" (Grace Bopst); "What Nursing Assistants Need to Know about Heart…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Attitudes, Cancer, Chronic Illness
