Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics,

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.

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

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

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