Older Dutch People's Self-Reported Advance Euthanasia Directive Completion Before and After the Enactment of the Euthanasia Law: A Time Trend Study (1998-2011)

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Oct;63(10):2217-9. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13697.

Authors

Natalie Evans¹, H Roeline W Pasman¹, Dorly J H Deeg², Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen¹; EURO IMPACT

Collaborators

EURO IMPACT:
Lieve Van den Block, Zeger De Groote, Sarah Brearley, Augusto Caraceni, Joachim Cohen, Anneke Francke, Richard Harding, Irene J Higginson, Stein Kaasa, Karen Linden, Guido Miccinesi, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Koen Pardon, Roeline Pasman, Sophie Pautex, Sheila Payne, Luc Deliens

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

PMID: 26480999
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13697

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Advance Care Planning* / legislation & jurisprudence
Advance Care Planning* / statistics & numerical data
Advance Care Planning* / trends
Advance Directives* / legislation & jurisprudence
Advance Directives* / psychology
Advance Directives* / trends
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Attitude to Death
Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary / legislation & jurisprudence*
Female
Humans
Male
Netherlands
Self Report
Suicide, Assisted / legislation & jurisprudence*
Surveys and Questionnaires