© 1988 The Gerontological Society of America
All in the Family: Extended Autonomy and Expectations in Surrogate Health Care Decision-Making1
2 Associate of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027
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Examined were elderly persons' preferences and expectations for advance directives and surrogate health care decision-making in the event of decisional incapacity. Exploratory findings are presented from in-depth interviews of a sample of men and women aged 67 to 91 (n = 40). The view that elderly people have a strong expectation for familial decision-making in the event of long term care and perceive this reliance as a means of extended autonomy was supported by the findings.
Keywords: Surrogate decision-making, Advance directives, Family
1 The author gratefully acknowledges that support for this research was provided by the Retirement Research Foundation.
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