Health Communication Division

Cynthia Nichols, University of Alabama

Making the Case for Hospice: Beginning with the End in Mind - Paula Baldwin, George Mason University

The Good Patient: Competing Discourses of the ‘Paternalistic Patient’ and the ‘Hospice Patient’ - Sarah Nebel, University of Iowa; Tara Emmers-Sommer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Whiteness and Dialectic Tensions of Patient-centeredness and Latinos’ End-of-life Care - Juliann Scholl, Texas Tech University; Amy Heuman, Texas Tech University; Patrick Hughes, Texas Tech University

Influences on the Health-care Decisions of Older Adults: An Ecological Perspective - Jennifer Ohs, St. Louis University

Susan Morgan, Purdue University