Factors associated with brain donation among optimally healthy elderly people

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Issues discussed concern the social and psychological factors that influence healthy aged people to consider brain donation. Of age, education, socioeconomic status, gender, religiosity, marital status, and cognitive abilities, only age was determined to be a factor in the decision to undergo brain donation upon death.

Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Donation of organs, tissues, etc., Tissue donation, Organ donors, Tissue donors

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Self-rated health as a risk factor for prescribed drug use and future health and social service use in older people

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Issues discussed concern the use of self-rated health surveys as predictors of mortality in the elderly. This study also linked self-rated health with social service and medication utilization, focusing on how self-evaluations of poor, moderate, and excellent health are related to long-term mortality.

United Kingdom, Research, Health status indicators, Self-care, Health, Self care (Health)

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Causes of death and clinical diagnostic erros in extreme aged hospitalized people: a retrospective clinical-necropsy survey

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Research presented concerns the causes of death in the very old, comparing the disease status and cause of death in more youthful and extremely aged persons. Findings show 84% of deaths in the extreme aged were caused by vascular and respiratory diseases.

Terminally ill persons, Terminally ill, Peripheral vascular diseases, Respiratory tract diseases

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