title: End-of-life planning activities: an integrated process.
abstract: This study examined end-of-life planning and whether common characteristics predicted completion of these decisions. Participants in the Nebraska End-of-Life Survey were asked whether they had heard about or completed five plans: a health care power of attorney agreement, a living will, a last will and testament, funeral or burial preplanning, and organ and tissue donation. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors of these outcomes. Predictors of completing end-of-life plans, including funeral and burial preplanning, included older age, higher household income, and higher religiosity. This suggests that all of these decisions may be part of an integrated planning process at the end of life. Further, results from this study indicate that the role of religiosity, found in this study to predict both financial and health care planning, warrants further exploration.
authors: Department of Gerontology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68588-0562, USA. cmkelly@unomaha.edu
authors: Christopher M
authors: CM
authors: Kelly
authors: Department of Gerontology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68588-0562, USA.
authors: Julie L
authors: JL
authors: Masters
authors: Department of Gerontology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68588-0562, USA.
authors: Stanley
authors: S
authors: DeViney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D032722:Advance Care Planning / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016223:Advance Directives / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009329:Nebraska; D057240:Patient Preference / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019727:Proxy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014918:Wills / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*