Nursing Home Residents' Treatment Preferences. Abstract, Executive Summary, andFinal Report

摘要

Four hundred twenty-one randomly selected nursing home residents living in 49nursing homes participated in an in-person survey. The objectives of the survey were to: (1) elicit nursing home residents' (a) preferences regarding life-sustaining treatments, (b) prior discussion of preferences; and (c) use of advance directives; identify individual factors associated with preferences; (2) determine wheather preferences are influenced by detailed information about CPR procedures; and (3) determine wheather individuals with varying degrees of cognitive impairment can engage in discussions of treatment preferences.