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Prevalence, effectiveness and predictors of planning the place of death among older persons followed in community-based long term care
Author(s)Bruce Leff, Kimberly P Kaffenbarger, Robin Remsburg
Journal titleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 48, no 8, August 2000
Pagespp 943-948
KeywordsDeath ; Living in the community ; Domiciliary services ; Community care ; United States of America.
AnnotationLittle is known about whether patients plan their place of death, and whether such planning is effective. This study reports on 125 patients who died between July 1995 and November 1998 in a geographically defined catchment area in south-east Baltimore, Maryland (MD). 80 patients (64%) made a plan to die in a specific place, and these plans were executed successfully in 73 cases (91%). Making a plan to die in a specific place was positively associated with an advance directive Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and negatively associated with the lack of an identifiable main medical problem other than being homebound. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-001020210 A
ClassmarkCW: K4: N: PA: 7T

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