1. End-of-Life Planning Activities: An Integrated Process.
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Kelly, ChristopherM., Masters, JulieL., and DeViney, Stanley
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MEDICAL protocols , *INTERMENT , *EPIDEMIOLOGY , *ORGAN donors , *POWER of attorney , *PROBABILITY theory , *STATISTICAL sampling , *STATISTICS , *SURVEYS , *TERMINALLY ill , *LOGISTIC regression analysis , *DATA analysis , *LIVING wills , *DATA analysis software , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
This study examined end-of-life planning and whether common characteristics predicted completion of these decisions. Participants in the Nebraska End-of-Life Survey were asked whether they had heard about or completed five plans: a health care power of attorney agreement, a living will, a last will and testament, funeral or burial preplanning, and organ and tissue donation. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors of these outcomes. Predictors of completing end-of-life plans, including funeral and burial preplanning, included older age, higher household income, and higher religiosity. This suggests that all of these decisions may be part of an integrated planning process at the end of life. Further, results from this study indicate that the role of religiosity, found in this study to predict both financial and health care planning, warrants further exploration. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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