Recent Advances in Geriatric Medicine

Volume: 2

End of Life Care in Older Adults

Author(s): Susan E. Lowey

Pp: 123-145 (23)

DOI: 10.2174/9781681084510116020011

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Abstract

Older adulthood is considered to be the last phase of life in the human lifespan. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [1], the average age of death in the United States is 78 years. It is a well-known part of the human experience that death most commonly occurs during older adulthood and is more widely accepted by society than when death occurs in a child or young adult. Old age is characterized by the developmental stage of life known as integrity versus despair [2]. In this last developmental stage of life, an individual is left challenged to accept and find meaning in the life that he/she has lived.


Keywords: Death, Death and society, Dying, End of life, Family issues, Grieving, Hospice, Palliative care, Stages of development.

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