Advance directives state requirements, center practices, and participant prevalence in adult day services centers: Findings from the 2016 National Study of Long-Term Care Providers

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• Alternative Title:
  J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
• Personal Author:
  Lendon, Jessica Penn ; Caffrey, Christine ; Lau, Denys T.
• Description:
  Objectives:
  
  Adult day service centers (ADSCs) may serve as an entrée to advance care planning. This study examined state requirements for ADSCs to provide advance directives (AD) information to ADSC participants, ADSCs’ awareness of requirements, ADSCs’ practice of providing AD information, and their associations with the percentage of participants with ADs.
  
  Methods:
  
  Using the 2016 National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, analyses included 3,305 ADSCs that documented ADs in participants’ files. Bivariate and linear regression analyses were conducted.
  
  Results:
  
  Nine states had a requirement to provide AD information. 80.8% of ADSCs provided AD information. 41.3% of participants had documented ADs. There were significant associations between state requirement, awareness, and providing information with AD prevalence. State requirement was mediated by awareness.
  
  Discussion:
  
  This study found many ADSCs provided AD information, and ADSCs that thought their state had a requirement and provided information was associated with AD prevalence, regardless of state requirements.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Day Care Centers Advance Directives Aged Day Care, Medical Humans Long-Term Care United States
• Keywords:
  Death And Dying Health Care Policy Health Services Use Long-term Care
• Source:
  J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 76(8):1673-1678
• Pubmed ID:
  32622350
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7782205
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  76
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0f3167ea8873ad30d8b399d18d48d4129ce9b84ef022989f94228583f7a64ff1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/99956/cdc_99956_DS1.pdf
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