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Direct linkSorensen, Ros; Iedema, Rick – Death Studies, 2011
The care of people who die in hospitals is often suboptimal. Involving patients in decisions about their care is seen as one way to improve care outcomes. Federal and state government policymakers in Australia are promoting shared decision making in acute care hospitals as a means to improve the quality of end-of-life care. If policy is to be…
Descriptors: Health Services, Hospitals, Health Personnel, Patients
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
