National End-of-Life-Treatment Preferences are Stable Over Time: National Health and Aging Trends Study.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Advance Care Planning is a process of understanding and sharing preferences regarding future medical care.

Objective

To explore individual and national stability of end-of-life treatment preferences among a sample of older adults.

Methods

National Health and Aging Trends Study is a nationally representative sample of older adults. In 2012, a random sample, and in 2018, the entire sample were queried on end-of-life treatment preferences defined as acceptance or rejection of life prolonging treatment (LPT) if they had a serious illness and were at the end of their life and in severe pain or had severe disability. Using a cohort design, we explored individual trends in preferences for LPT among those with responses in both waves (pain scenario: N = 606, disabilit

SUBMITTER: Skolarus LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318610 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature