Health Care Proxies: Whom Do Young Old Adults Choose and Why?

Author:

Carr Deborah1,Khodyakov Dmitry2

Affiliation:

1. Deborah Carr is Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology at University of Wisconsin—Madison and Rutgers University. Her research focuses on spousal bereavement, end-of-life issues, and psychosocial influences on well-being over the life course. Her recent projects include two studies of the ways that families prepare for the end-of-life health concerns of older adults, each funded by the National Institute on Aging.

2. Dmitry Khodyakov is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. His first area of interest is the study of trust in organizational settings. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation analyzing the role of trust in large conductorless orchestras. His second area of interest includes a study of factors that influence end-of-life planning among older adults and the impact such planning has on their relationships with close family members and friends.

Abstract

Dying persons are encouraged to name as durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC) someone who will thus be empowered to make end-of-life treatment decisions for them in the event that they become incapacitated. We use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to investigate whether and whom older adults designate as their DPAHC. DPAHC appointments are affected by recent hospitalizations, personal beliefs (including religion, fear of death, and the belief that doctors rather than patients should control health care decisions), and personal experience with the recent painful death of a loved one. The selections of DPAHC designees are generally consistent with the hierarchical compensatory model: Married persons overwhelmingly name their spouses, while unmarried parents appoint their children. Women are more likely than men to rely on children. Parents of one or two children tend to bypass their children for another relative. Unmarried, childless persons show considerable heterogeneity in their choices. We discuss implications of these findings for health care policy and practice.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Social Psychology

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