Wishes regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments among elderly persons in Israel: An explanatory model

Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation—a focus group study of older people

“…Consistent with past research, participants considered health-related assessments of quality of life (present health and physical and mental incapacity) when making decisions about life-prolongation (Carmel & Mutran, 1997b;Cicirelli, 1997;Ebell et al, 1990;Landon, 2000;Phillips & Woodward, 1999). In this respect, both older people and their doctors use the same principles to make CPR decisions (de Vos, Koster & de Hann, 1998) but may hold different positions on those principles.…”

The interaction between aging and death anxieties predicts ageism

“…Death anxiety was measured by the Fear of Death Scale (Carmel & Mutran, 1997). The original scale was constructed in Hebrew.…”

“…Age, gender, education, and marital status were controlled, as previous studies found them to be related to aging anxiety (Yan et al, 2011), to death anxiety (Carmel & Mutran, 1997), or to ageism (Bodner et al, 2012). Chronic medical conditions, disability, and somatic symptoms were controlled because they represent major markers of physical health that can be correlated with aging and death anxieties.…”

Anxieties about aging and death and psychological distress: The protective role of emotional complexity

“…Death anxiety deals with the fear of the end of life and with the fear of the unknown afterlife (Carmel & Mutran, 1997;Lasher & Faulkender, 1993;Yan, Silverstein, & Wilber, 2011). It describes an emotional state of death awareness, in which people experience terror as a response to the knowledge of their mortality, which is not triggered by an immediate life threat (Russac, Gatliff, Reece, & Spottswood, 2007).…”