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| Social support and social networks in the last year of life | | Author(s) | Elizabeth H Bradley, Leslie Curry, Christianna S Williams |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 8 no 1, Spring 2002 |
| Pages | pp 7-18 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Social contacts ; Personal relationships ; Dying ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Cross-sectional analysis of four waves of data from the New Haven site of the Established Population for Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE) is used to examine the prevalence of, and factors associated with, poorer social support and more limited social network ties for older people in the last year of life (LYOL). The findings indicate that a minority of LYOL respondents (8.4%) reported lacking instrumental support, although a larger proportion (18%) reported lacking emotional support. The results also demonstrated that being in the LYOL was significantly associated with fewer social network ties, and some significant correlates of lacking instrumental support (i.e. being unmarried and reporting poorer self-rated health) were more pronounced for respondents in the LYOL. The study suggests that being in the last year of life may put some older people at risk for limited social resources at a time when such resources may be particularly needed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020924217 A |
| Classmark | P6: TOA: DS: CX: 3KB: 3J: 7T |
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