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| The Framework | |
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| The People And The Field | |
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| Stereotypes and the New Senior Citizen | |
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| A Demographic Perspective on the People | |
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| An Age Revolution | |
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| A Revolution in Social Roles | |
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| Women and Later Life | |
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| Minorities and Later Life | |
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| A Historical Perspective On The Field | |
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| The Perspective and Plan of this Book | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Theories and Research Methods | |
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| Age-Irrelevant Theories | |
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| A Behavioral Perspective on Aging | |
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| A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Aging | |
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| A Behavioral Genetic Perspective on Aging | |
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| Age-Change Theories | |
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| Tasks linked to Age: Erik Erikson''s Psychosocial Crises | |
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| A Single Shift in Midlife: Carl Jung''s Passage toward Maturity | |
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| Adapting to Development and Decline: Paul Baltes''s Selective Optimization with Compensation | |
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| Synthesizing the Perspectives: The Contextualist | |
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| Life-Span Developmental Approach | |
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| Research Methods | |
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| Cross-sectional Studies | |
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| Longitudinal Studies | |
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| Sequential Studies | |
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| Evaluating Any Research | |
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| Getting Much Bigger and on Occasion Much Smaller: A Final Note on Current Research Trends | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Physical Dimension | |
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| Normal Aging and Disease Prevention | |
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| An Overview of the Aging Process | |
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| Biological Theories of Aging | |
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| Random Damage Theories of Aging | |
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| Programmed Aging Theories | |
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| Extending the Maximum Life Span | |
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| Normal Aging | |
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| Two Basic Principles of Normal Aging | |
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| Impact of Normal Aging on Daily Life | |
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| The Externals: Hair and Skin | |
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| The Cardiovascular System | |
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| The Nervous System | |
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| Lifestyle, Aging and Disease | |
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| Health Practices, Social Relationships and Longevity | |
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| Emotional Stress and Illness | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Sensory and Motor Functioning | |
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| Vision | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Visual System and Age-Related Decline | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Hearing | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Auditory System and Age-Related Decline | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Taste and Smell | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Motor Performance | |
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| The Pace of Responding | |
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| The Act of Taking Action | |
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| Specifics | |
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| A General Strategy for Enhancing Sensory-Motor Functioning in Old Age | |
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| Designing Housing for the Elderly | |
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| Modifying Public Spaces | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Disease, Disability, and Health Care | |
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| Chronic Disease versus Disability | |
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| Is Disability the Price of a Ripe Old Age? The Disability Pathway | |
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| Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Disability | |
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| Medical Care for Disease and Disability | |
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| Dealing with Disability | |
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| Community Options for the Disabled | |
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| Nursing Home Care | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Cognitive Dimension | |
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| Intelligence | |
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| Intelligence as Measured by Traditional Tests | |
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| Interpreting the Findings: A Two-Factor Theory of Intelligence | |
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| Unraveling the Truth about Change: The Seattle Longitudinal Study | |
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| Speed, Health, Mental Activity, Stability, and Decline | |
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| New Conceptions and Tests of Adult Intelligence | |
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| Robert Sternberg''s Tests of Practical Intelligence | |
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| Nancy Denney''s Non-Exercised and Exercised Abilities | |
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| A Neo-Piagetian Perspective on Adult Intelligence | |
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| Concluding Questions and Criticisms | |
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| Specifics: Intelligence in Action | |
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| Wisdom | |
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| Creative Achievements | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Improving Performance on I.Q | |
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| Tests | |
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| Enhancing Wisdom | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Memory and Dementia | |
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| Memory | |
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| The Tests and the Findings | |
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| An Information-Processing Perspective on Memory | |
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| A Memory Systems Perspective on Memory | |
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| Measuring Everyday Memory | |
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| Memory for the Future and Memory of the Past | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Dementia | |
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| The Demography of Dementia | |
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| Vascular Dementia | |
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| Alzheimer''s Disease | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended | |
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| The Emotional Dimension | |
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| Personality | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| Personal Conceptions about Change | |
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| Problems of Measuring Change | |
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| The Great Consistency | |
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| Change Debate | |
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| Focus on Change: The Kansas City Studies of Adult Life | |
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| Focus on Stability: Costa and McCrae''s Big Five Traits | |
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| Focus on Change: Exploring Life-Stories, Goals, Priorities, and Hopes | |
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| Do We Grow More Mature with Age? Old Age: Season of Stress or Period of Peace? Interventions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Psychopathology | |
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| The Problems | |
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| Scope and Age Patterns | |
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| Specific Disorders | |
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| Alcoholism | |
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| Phobias | |
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| Depression | |
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| Biological Approaches to Mental Health | |
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| Older Adults and the Mental Health System | |
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| Interventions | |
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| The Diagnostic Evaluation | |
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| Chemotherapy | |
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| Psychotherapy | |
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| Too Little Mental Health Care in Long Term Care | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Social Dimension | |
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| The Older Family | |
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| Older Married Couples | |
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| The Positive Reality: Increasing Harmony | |
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| The Negative Possibility: Decreasing Passion | |
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| Sexuality in Later Life | |
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| The Social Framework | |
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| Age Changes in Sexual Responsiveness | |
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| Age Changes in Sexual Interest and Activity | |
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| Factors Affecting Sexuality in Middle and Later Life | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Parents and Children as Adults | |
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| Quantity versus Quality | |
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| Caring for an Ill Parent | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Grandparenthood | |
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| Varied and Flexible Grandparent Roles | |
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| Grandparent Barriers | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Life Transitions: Retirement aAnd Widowhood | |
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| Retirement | |
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| Setting the Context | |
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| The Drive to Retire | |
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| The Consequences: Life as a Retiree | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Old and Rich or Old and Poor? Widowhood | |
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| Setting the Context | |
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| Mourning | |
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| Life as a Widowed Person | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Old and Living Alone | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Death and Dying | |
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| Death Anxiety | |
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| Predicting Death Anxiety | |
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| Life-Threatening Illness | |
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| Religious Faith | |
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| Dying | |
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| The Person | |
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| Health Care Providers | |
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| Interventions (and Ongoing Issues) | |
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| Hospice Care | |
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| Humanizing Hospital Care | |
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| Controlling the Timing of Death | |
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| Age-Based Rationing of Care | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| References | |
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| Indices | |
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| Credits | |