Palliative Care II: Improving Care, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine Book

1. A Historical Account of the Geriatrics and Palliative Care Movements: Lessons from Twin Efforts to Transform Medical Care (Cox-Hayley, Sachs)
2. Norms, Standards, and Guidelines: A Framework for Comprehensive Palliative/End-of-life Care (Ferris, Librach)
3. Public Health and Palliative Care (Higginson)
4. International Perspectives of Aging and End-of-Life Care (Merriman, Sebuyira)
5. Building Up Research in Palliative Care: An Historical Perspective (Dale, Kaasa)
6. Pain and Terminal Delirium Research in the Elderly (Bruera, Yennurajalingam?)
7. Instruments of Assessment and Measurement (Arseven, Chang, Emanuel)8. Education in Palliative Care (Blust, Weissman)
9. The Economics of Palliative Care: A Research Agenda (Boni-Saenz, Dranove, LoSasso)
10. Assisted Suicide (Wolf)
11. When Advance Care Plans Carry No Authority (Kirschner)
12. Futility (Goold, Silveira)
13. Withholding and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment (Derse)
14. An Agenda for Policy Improvement (Lorenz, Lynn, Shugarman)