Advance directives and power of attorney for health care in the oldest-old – results of the AgeQualiDe study

Advance directives and power of attorney for health care in the oldest-old – results of the AgeQualiDe study

Abstract Background Completion of advance directives (ADs) and power of attorney (POA) documents may protect a person’s autonomy in future health care situations when the individual lacks decisional capacity. As such situations become naturally much more common in old age, we specifically aimed at p...

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Main Authors: Tobias Luck, Francisca S. Rodriguez, Birgitt Wiese, Carolin van der Leeden, Kathrin Heser, Horst Bickel, Jürgen in der Schmitten, Hans-Helmut Koenig, Siegfried Weyerer, Silke Mamone, Tina Mallon, Michael Wagner, Dagmar Weeg, Angela Fuchs, Christian Brettschneider, Jochen Werle, Martin Scherer, Wolfgang Maier, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, for the AgeCoDe & AgeQualiDe study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
Subjects:
Oldest-old age
Prevalence
Frequency
Primary care
Power of attorney
Advance directives
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-017-0482-8

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