Frequency and correlates of advance planning among cognitively impaired older adults

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 643-649

  Lingler, Jennifer Hagerty ^a,b   Hirschman, Karen B ^c   Garand, Linda ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a,b   Becker, James T ^a,b   Schulz, Richard ^a,b   Dekosky, Steven T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Durable power of attorney; Living will; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GRADUATE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POWER OF ATTORNEY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 54549106721     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e31816b7324     Document Type: Article

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