Summarized by Masters of Longevity from Frontiers - Health.
Analysis of nationwide survey data compares which demographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors predict advance directive completion in older adults with and without cognitive impairment.
Key Takeaways
- Religious affiliation, poorer nutritional status, higher exercise frequency, death preparation education, and greater awareness of dying well predicted AD completion in both groups.
- In cognitively impaired older adults, AD completion was also linked to younger age, female sex, higher education, more prescriptions, greater ADL independence, and higher depressive symptoms.
- In cognitively normal older adults, AD completion was additionally associated with a higher number of chronic diseases and having fallen within the past year.
