## Abstract Meeting the demands of chronic illness and disease states is challenging, at best. Too often, the chronicity of the illness hastens death. The physical, psychological, and sociological changes that accompany the death of an individual require attention and forethought if the life transi
Working with ambivalence: informal caregivers of patients at the end of life
β Scribed by Richard Harding; Irene Higginson
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 26 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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