Book chapter
END-OF-LIFE CARE IN NURSING HOMES
Living With Dying, pp.628-664
Columbia University Press
08/04/2004
DOI: 10.7312/berz12794.40
Abstract
Social workers employed in nursing homes encounter death and dying as part of everyday life. Of the more than two million deaths that occurred in the United States in 2000, 25 percent occurred in nursing homes (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization 2002:5). Close to half of persons age eighty-five and older (the fastest-growing age group in the United States) die as a nursing home resident (National Center for Health Statistics 1996). These statistics understate the actual amount of dying in contemporary nursing homes, in that some nursing home residents complete their dying in the hospital or en route to
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- END-OF-LIFE CARE IN NURSING HOMES
- Creators
- MERCEDES BERN-KLUGKIM Ellis
- Contributors
- Joan Berzoff (Editor)Phyllis R. Silverman (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Living With Dying, pp.628-664
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- DOI
- 10.7312/berz12794.40
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/04/2004
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984307238702771
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