Do Older Adults Know Their Spouses' End-of-Life Treatment Preferences?

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Principal Investigator(s): Moorman, Sara M.; Hauser, Robert M.; Carr, Deborah

Summary: When terminally ill patients become mentally incapacitated, their surrogates often make treatment decisions in collaboration with health care providers. The authors examined how surrogates’ errors in reporting their spouses’ preferences are affected by their gender, status as durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC), whether they and their spouses discussed end-of-life preferences, and their spouses’ health status. Structural equation models were applied to data from married couples in ... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25701.v1

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