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  2. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    The Lester attitude death scale was developed in 1966 but not published until 1991 until its validity was established. [80] By measuring the general attitude towards death and also the inconsistencies with death attitudes, participants are scaled to their favorable value towards death. [80]

  3. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    Published in 1974, Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present was French historian Philippe Ariès's first major publication on the subject of death. Ariès was well known for his work as a medievalist and a historian of the family , but the history of death was the subject of his work in his last decade of scholarly life.

  4. Death and adjustment hypotheses - Wikipedia

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    As outlined very briefly in journal articles, DAH hypothesizes the following for optimum attitude towards death as well as to harmonize the adjustment problems in relation to the phenomenon: [8] Death and Adjustment Hypotheses – One: In the absence of empirical evidence from science, to regard death to be not our absolute end seems natural ...

  5. Gordon Brown comes out against assisted dying in major blow ...

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    “An assisted dying law, however well intended, would alter society’s attitude towards elderly, seriously ill and disabled people, even if only subliminally,” he said.

  6. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    Key issues in Asian health include childbirth and maternal health, HIV and AIDS, mental health, and aging and the elderly. These problems are influenced by the sociological factors of religion or belief systems, attempts to reconcile traditional medicinal practices with modern professionalism, and the economic status of the inhabitants of Asia.

  7. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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    The reason for this expansion partially reflects a decades-long shift in attitude among terminally ill patients, who increasingly prefer to spend their final weeks at home instead of in a hospital. But the explosive growth of hospice is also attributable to an all-out marketing blitz by hospice companies eager to keep patient counts high ...

  8. Gerontological nursing - Wikipedia

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    Woman in a residential care home receiving a birthday cake. Gerontological nursing is the specialty of nursing pertaining to older adults. [1] Gerontological nurses work in collaboration with older adults, their families, and communities to support healthy aging, maximum functioning, and quality of life. [2]

  9. Death education - Wikipedia

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    Death education refers to the experiences and activities of death that one deals with. Death education also deals with being able to grasp the different processes of dying, talk about the main topics of attitudes and meanings toward death, and the after effects on how to learn to care for people who are affected by the death.