End|of|Life Discussions with Older Adults

End-of-Life Discussions with Older Adults - PubMed

Forty percent of a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries had not discussed their preferences regarding EOL medical treatment.

End-of-Life Discussions with Older Adults - PMC

Because a majority of deaths occur in older adults, it is troubling that nearly 40% of Medicare beneficiaries have not had any discussion of EOL treatment ...

End‐of‐Life Discussions with Older Adults

Objectives To determine the prevalence of end-of-life (EOL) conversations with older adults. Design National Health and Aging Trends Study ...

End-of-Life Preferences in Older US Adults—Bridging the “What ...

For older US adults at the end of life, a “what matters” chasm has formed between the estimated 70% who express a preference to die at home and the 30% who ...

Palliative and End-of-Life Care and Older Adults

Some health care providers are uncomfortable asking or discussing an older person's choices for care (e.g., hospital or home treatment, breathing machines or ...

End‐of‐Life Discussions with Older Adults - Kale - 2016

Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015 ...

How to Start a Conversation About End-of-Life Care - AARP

While 85 percent of adults over 45 say they are comfortable discussing ... persons life? Thank you very much… Read more. reply 1 reply 1.

How the more life discourse constrains end-of-life conversations in ...

... end-of-life (EOL) conversations with medically frail older adults. However, EOL conversations happen most often when death is imminent or are avoided altogether ...

How to Talk to an Elderly Parent About End-of-Life Decisions

Discover guidance and resources for discussing end-of-life decisions with your aging parent, from The Denver Hospice.

Concerns and potential improvements in end-of-life care from the ...

The aim of this study was to explore the views of older patients near EOL or their caregivers about the quality of health care at the EOL based on their lived ...

End-of-Life Decision-Making Capacity in Older People With Serious ...

Many older patients with serious mental illness can engage in end-of-life discussions and can make autonomous decisions about preferred end-of- ...

End of Life Issues and Care - American Psychological Association

What mental health issues and concerns do some older adults face near end-of-life? ... end-of-life decision conversations and how to approach these discussions ...

Discussing Life Expectancy with Older Patients: Prediction and ...

When patients are open to discussing life expectancy, their motivations include the ability to plan and to prepare for the end of life, to ...

“Whatever happens, happens” challenges of end-of-life ...

In this qualitative study of older adults with heart failure and their family caregivers four challenges of end-of-life discussions were ...

A serious game for engaging older adults in end-of-life care discussion

Practice implications. A game can be an ice-breaking tool to increase self-efficacy towards communicating end-of-life care preferences with surrogates, but ...

Older Adults' Experience of Meaning at the End of Life in Two ...

The aim of this study was to explore how older adults (aged > 65) confronted with imminent death express their thoughts and feelings about death and dying and ...

End-of-Life Care in an Aging World: A Global Perspective

Families around the world are acting as surrogates for the elderly in making health care decisions. However, discussions about what to do if elderly patients ...

End-of-life health literacy, knowledge and behaviours towards ...

... discussed their end-of-life wishes, completed advance directives ... end-of-life health literacy and ACP behaviours in older Swiss adults.

Concordance of End-of-Life Care With End-of-Life Wishes in an ...

... End of Life. National Academies Press; 2014. 3. Kale MS, Ornstein KA, Smith CB, Kelley AS. End-of-life discussions with older adults.

Discussing End-of-Life Care With Your Patients - AAFP

The conversation may not be easy, but your patients will be grateful. JERRY L. OLD, MD. info. Fam Pract Manag. 2008;15( ...