Wills
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Wisdom of generations: a pilot study of the values transmitted in ethical wills of nursing home residents and student volunteers.

17 Jun 2009 PURPOSE: This is a pilot study that provides a description of the values older persons report in ethical wills and their reasoning for the values they chose, and compares the values in ethical wills of seniors and students. Nursing home residents ... Read more...

[Testament's ability in Balkan endemic nephropathy]

29 Apr 2009 INTRODUCTION: Testament is a solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her estate, and it has a psychopathological, lawful and ethical importance to a person, family and society. The ... Read more...

Corresponding affections: emotional exchange among siblings in the Nassau family.

30 Mar 2009 This article examines the nature of emotional exchange among the siblings who were the children of William the Silent, leader of the nascent Dutch Republic. Using evidence from extensive familial correspondence, it asks how the language of emotions ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Wills'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Wisdom of generations: a pilot study of the values transmitted in ethical wills of nursing home residents and student volunteers. 17 Jun 2009
• [Testament's ability in Balkan endemic nephropathy] 29 Apr 2009
• Corresponding affections: emotional exchange among siblings in the Nassau family. 30 Mar 2009
• Contemporaneous assessment of testamentary capacity. 25 Mar 2009
• Mother always loved you best. 30 Dec 2008
• The momentum of posthumous conception: a model act. 30 Dec 2008
• Inheritance and intergenerational wealth transmission in eighteenth-century Ottoman Kastamonu: an empirical investigation. 30 Dec 2008
• Resolve to brush up your finances in 2009. 29 Nov 2008
• Thoughts on the importance of wills in family relationships: a clinical response to Elizabeth Stone. 29 Nov 2008
• The last will and testament in literature: rupture, rivalry, and sometimes rapprochement from Middlemarch to Lemony Snicket. 29 Nov 2008
• Families after death, families after birth. 29 Nov 2008
• Medical reasons for retrospective challenges of testamentary capacity. 29 Nov 2008
• Handwriting as a gauge of cognitive status: a novel forensic tool for posthumous evaluation of testamentary capacity. 18 Sep 2008
• Seven reasons to consider a trust. 30 Aug 2008
• NY: Should nurses witness patients' wills? Employer's rules may prohibit witnessing wills. 30 Aug 2008
• [Inheritance rights fo the child born from post-mortem fertilization] 29 Jun 2008
• Emil Kraepelin's legacy: systematic clinical observation and the categorical classification of psychiatric diseases. 30 May 2008
• Inheritance tax: planning for your family's future. 30 May 2008
• Genotypic features of lentivirus transgenic mice. 5 May 2008
• Which aspects of cognitive function are best associated with testamentary capacity in patients with Alzheimer's disease? 29 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Wills'

Definition: Legal documents that are declarations of individuals' wishes regarding the disposal of their property or estate after death; esp: written instruments, legally executed, by which dispositions are made of estates. LIVING WILLS are written declarations regarding prolongation of life by extraordinary means.

Descriptor UI: D014918

Alternative terms: Wills; Inheritance; Inheritances;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.583.927;

Technical Notes: do not confuse X ref INHERITANCE with HEREDITY