Thanatophobia (Death Anxiety) in the Elderly: The Problem of the Child’s Inability to Assess Their Own Parent’s Death Anxiety State
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Thanatophobia (Death Anxiety) in the Elderly: The Problem of the Child’s Inability to Assess Their Own Parent’s Death Anxiety State
Thanatophobia is omnipresent in our lives. Research has shown separate but connected constructs: fear of death or fear of the dying process. The influences on death anxiety are varied including religiosity, gender, psychological state, and age. It is often assumed by the children of the elderly that the fear of death is prevalent in their parents. Daily the medical staff encounters the presence...
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Daily the geriatric multidisciplinary staff encounters Death Anxiety (DA), whether in the patient or family member, and its existence impairs the ability to make unbiased decisions. Since children are often intimately involved in the decision making process with or for their elderly parent, the child’s belief in the existence of Death Anxiety in their parents may prevent flow of information, so...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2296-858X
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2017.00011