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The Relationship of Loneliness to End‐of‐Life Experience in Older Americans: A Cohort Study by Nauzley C. Abedini; HwaJung Choi; Melissa Y. Wei; Kenneth M. Langa; Vineet Chopra is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objectives: Little is known about the relationship between loneliness and end-of-life (eol) experience including symptom burden, intensity of care, and advance care planning among older adults. ## Design: Secondary analysis of the health and retirement study (hrs). ## Setting: Population based. ## Participants: Decedents older than 50 years who died between 2004 and 2014 (n = 8700). exclusions included those who were ineligible for surveys assessing loneliness (n = 2932) or had missing or incomplete loneliness or symptom data (n = 2872). ## Measurements: Individuals were characterized as lonely based on responses to the three-item revised university of california, los angeles loneliness scale in the most recent hrs survey before death. outcomes were proxy reports of total eol symptom burden, intensity of eol care (eg, late hospice enrollment, place of death, hospitalizations, use of life support), and advance care planning. results were expressed as adjusted odds ratios (aors) with 95% confidence intervals (cis). ## Results: One-third of 2896 decedents (n = 942) were lonely. after adjusting for demographics, socioeconomic status, multimorbidity, depressive symptoms, family and f
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- Author
- Nauzley C. Abedini; HwaJung Choi; Melissa Y. Wei; Kenneth M. Langa; Vineet Chopra
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)