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The Gerontologist 1990 30(4):480-485; doi:10.1093/geront/30.4.480
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© 1990 The Gerontological Society of America

Beyond the Living Will1

Martha Henderson, MSN, DMin, Former director of Outpatient Services and geriatric nurse practitioner2

2 Carol Woods Retirement Community Chapel Hill, NC Current affiliation: Hospital Based Home Care Program, Veterans Administration Hospital Durham, NC. Address correspondence to: Martha Henderson, MSN, DMin, 412 Henley Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514


  Abstract

Sixty-three residents of a retirement community with living wills were studied to see if more specific planning for, and thus control over, their dying process would decrease their anxiety about death. The experimental group received intervention in the form of counseling and filling out a questionnaire regarding specific treatments (e.g., CPR, feeding tubes), proxy decision making, and other related questions. Results show that the mean death anxiety score for the experimental group decreased, whereas the control group's mean score did not change significantly.

Keywords: Advance directives, Death anxiety

1 I thank Carl Henley, John Weisz, and Sue Dodd for their help with the research and preparation of this manuscript.


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