Relationship of psychosocial and background variables to older adults' end-of-life decisions

Article Abstract:

A survey of 388 individuals aged 60 and above was conducted to find out their attitude towards end-of-life decisions, particularly in cases of terminal illness or non-terminal ones which lead to low quality of life. Results indicate that majority favor continuation of life despite the hardships while a moderate-sized number would leave the crucial decision to family members of friends. Only a very small number favored such methods as suicide or euthanasia.

Aged, Elderly, Research, Decision-making (Ethics)

---

Caregiving decision making by older mothers and adult children: Process and expected outcome

Article Abstract:

A study on dyadic caregiving decision-making by older mothers and adult children where mother-son teams and mother-daughter teams were paired is illustrated. The outcome showed that adult children, especially sons, dominated the decision making by talking more and introducing new alternatives than did their mothers and also the mother-son pairs had more negative outcomes.

Decision-making, Analysis, Caregivers, Mother and child, Mother-child relations

---

Characteristics of adult day care participants who enter a nursing home

Article Abstract:

The factors that make some individuals who attend adult day care centers more likely than others to require nursing home care at some point are examined.

Public affairs, Services information, Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities, Individual and family services, Elderly Day Care Programs, Social aspects, Services, Nursing home patients, Adult day care centers, Adult day care centres

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: The relationship between cognitive/neuropsychological factors and car driving performance in older adults. The effects of physical activity on mortality in the Jerusalem 70-Year-Olds Longitudinal Study
• Abstracts: The relationship of activity restriction and replacement with depressive symptoms among older adults. Age differences in the effect of physical activity on depressive symptoms
• Abstracts: Relationships between self-reported physical and mental health and intelligence performance across adulthood. Social networks, health, and emotional well-being among the oldest old in London
• Abstracts: Urinary incontinence and psychological distress in community-dwelling older African Americans and Whites. Ankle brachial index as a predictor of cognitive impairment in the general population: ten-year follow-up of the Edinburgh artery study
• Abstracts: Sense of coherence moderates the relationship between life stress and natural killer cell activity in healthy older adults

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.