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| Predictors of advance directives in institutionalized elderly | | Author(s) | Farida K Ejaz |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 33, no 4, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 67-90 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Medical care ; Terminal care ; Rights [elderly] ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 133 cognitively alert residents from 13 US nursing homes were interviewed regarding predictors of their having advance directives. A logistic regression examined the effect of Locus of Control (LOC) to predict presence of an advance directive. LOC was found not to be significant. Rather, two background characteristics - religious affiliation and knowledge of advance directives - were significant. More specifically, Jews and Catholics, rather than Protestants, had implemented advance directives. From a practice perspective, educational courses geared at examining differences in religious affiliation and knowledge of the subject are likely to affect residents' implementing advance directives. As a note of caution, the study's findings need to be tested with larger, more generalisable samples. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010216205 A |
| Classmark | DA: KX: LHB: LK: LV: IKR: EX: 7T |
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