Factors influencing older adults to complete advance directives

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-275

  Alano, Gloria J ^a   Pekmezaris, Renee ^a,b   Tai, Julia Y ^c   Hussain, Mohammed J ^a   Jeune, Jose ^a   Louis, Betina ^a   El Kass, Gabriel ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad S ^a   Reddy, Roopika ^a   Lesser, Martin ^c   Wolf Klein, Gisele P ^a,b  

^a North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System ^*  (United States)

^b Bette and Jerome Lorber Center for the Advancement of Medical Education   (United States)

^c FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Beliefs and Attitudes; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEW YORK; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77958546520     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951510000064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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