Quality of Life, Depression, and End-of-Life Attitudes and Behaviors

摘要: The time of chronic illness preceding the end life has become a major focus research in recent years. Concern over both quality (QOL) individual and allocation health care resources is reason for large amount this area. discussion chapter broad goal examining depression relation to life. Depression physical are analyzed as antecedents treatment preferences near life, explicitly whose purpose extend Inasmuch little known about how such characteristics determine actual received, outcomes be examined usually expectations or or, alternatively, wishes length given hypothetical conditions under which would exist. overall guiding hypothesis tenability will critical literature conceptual review that wish live shorter partially explainable on basis (and other negative aspects life), but relationship also conditioned opposite direction by positive qualities person’s Valuation (VOL) offered construct proposed mediate between mental end-of-life behaviors. first section describes briefly concept health-related (HRQOL) place operationalization HRQOL. next sketches my conception QOL health, provides definitions several important constructs. four sections then devoted evidence concerning prevalence nears its end,