| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Attitudes toward life-sustaining treatment of older persons in Hong Kong | | Author(s) | Elsie Hui, Suzanne C Ho, June Tsang |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 10, October 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1232-1236 |
| Keywords | Dying ; Terminal care ; Medical care ; Attitude ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | There have been few studies of the attitudes of older Asians toward life-sustaining therapies. This study investigated the knowledge of and attitudes toward cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and life support in a cohort of older residential home residents and geriatric ward in-patients in Hong Kong. It found that knowledge of life-sustaining procedures was poor, with approximately 80% of home residents and 60% of in-patients had no knowledge of such therapies. The majority wished to be resuscitated, and the success rate of CPR was overestimated, although up to 20% changed their minds and declined CPR when they knew the true outcome of the procedure. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971127413 A |
| Classmark | CX: LV: LK: DP: 7DR |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|