Assessment of Older Adults´ Attitudes to Death, Palliative treatment, and Hospice care in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33879/AMH.122.2020.10035" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.33879/AMH.122.2020.10035</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33879/AMH.122.2020.10035" target="_blank" >10.33879/AMH.122.2020.10035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of Older Adults´ Attitudes to Death, Palliative treatment, and Hospice care in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Background/Purpose: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess older adults’ attitudes to death, palliative treatment, and hospice care and to determine the association of these attitudes and age, gender, depressive symptoms, and death anxiety. Methods: The attitudes were assessed with the Attitudes of Older People to End-of-Life Issues questionnaire (AEOLI). The study included 154 people within the age range 65-97 years. Results: Only 10% of older adults agreed with keeping people alive at any price. We identified statistically significant differences in some attitudes of older adults based on their age, gender, depression, and fear from death. Younger respondents (65-74 years old) stated more positive attitudes to euthanasia than people older than 75 years of age (p=0.048). However, there was found no statistically significant difference regarding the attitudes to euthanasia based on the depression score (p=0.710). Conclusion: More open discussion on the topic of death and dying in the society is needed, which the older adults themselves would welcome. Nurses, general practitioners, and doctors should educate elderly citizens more about the palliative and hospice care. © 2021, Asian Association for Frailty and Sarcopenia and Taiwan Association for Integrated Care. Published by Full Universe Integrated Marketing Limited.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30307 - Nursing

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Aging medicine and healthcare

ISSN

2663-8851

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

TW - TAIWAN (PROVINCE OF CHINA)

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

53-61

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85110520621