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| Euthanasia and old age | | Author(s) | Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Martien T Muller, Gerrit van der Wal |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, no 6, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp 487-492 |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Dying ; Death ; Terminal care ; Young elderly ; Over 70s ; Adults ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | This descriptive, retrospective study explored the relationship between euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) and the age of patients to whom it was administered. Data was collected from cases of EAS reported between 1984 and 1993 in the province of North Holland in The Netherlands. Between 1984 and 1993, 1707 cases of EAS were reported to the Public Prosecutor in North Holland. The average age of the female patients to whom EAS was administered was 65 years; for men the average was 62 years. For both men and women EAS was most frequently performed in the age categories of 60-69 years and 70-79 years, and less frequently in the age group of 80 years and older. The percentages of cases of EAS among all deaths are largest for the age groups of 25-44 and 45-54, and smallest for the age group of 80 years and older. The suggestion that EAS is mainly performed on older people in The Netherlands was not supported by this study. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980122412 A |
| Classmark | CY: CX: CW: LV: BBA: BBK: SD: 76H |
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