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Direct linkSchroepfer, Tracy A.; Noh, Hyunjin; Kavanaugh, Melinda – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: This study explored the role control plays in the dying process of terminally ill elders by investigating the aspects of the dying process over which they seek to exercise control, the strategies they use, and whether they desire to exercise more control. Design and Methods: In-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with 84…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Content Analysis, Older Adults, Death
Schroepfer, Tracy A. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: This study explored the quality and functioning of terminally ill elders' social relationships and their impact on elders' consideration to hasten death. Design and Methods: In-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 96 terminally ill elders. Logistic regression was used to determine whether aspects of social relationships…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Death, Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedEkerdt, David J. – Gerontologist, 1987
Asserts that the idea that retirement increases risk of illness and death persists because of the availability of vivid anecdotes, a tendency to interpret big events as major causes of illness, cultural celebration of work, theoretical perspectives in gerontology fostering expectations that retirement is disruptive, and misinterpretation of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Death, Diseases, Older Adults
Peer reviewedLeibson, Cynthia; And Others – Gerontologist, 1990
Examination of hospitalizations for 5,854 elderly adults for 1980, 1985, and 1987 revealed significant increases in 60-day mortality and nursing home transfers after Medicare's Prospective Payment System began and hospital stays were shortened. Increases were largely explained by differences in risk factors other than length of stay (age, gender,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Death, Diseases, Hospitals
Peer reviewedMullan, Joseph T. – Gerontologist, 1992
Analyzed bereavement adaptation among family caregivers to dementia patients. Bereavement group, as compared with active caregivers, dropped substantially in overload and increased in mastery and guilt. Depression showed curvilinear trend, declining from time of death, rising to preloss levels by end of year. Caregiver stressors, baseline…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Children, Alzheimers Disease, Bereavement
Janssen, Fanny; Nusselder, Wilma J.; Looman, Caspar W. N.; Mackenbach, Johan P.; Kunst, Anton E. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study assesses whether the stagnation of old-age (80+) mortality decline observed in The Netherlands in the 1980s continued in the 1990s and determines which factors contributed to this stagnation. Emphasis is on the role of smoking. Design and Methods: Poisson regression analysis with linear splines was applied to total and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Diseases, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
