Utilizing a Family Decision-Making Lens to Examine Adults’ End-of-Life Planning Actions

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• 作者：Angela Woosley ; Sharon M. Danes ; Marlene Stum
• 关键词：End ; of ; life planning ; Families ; Estate planning ; Adult children
• 刊名：Journal of Family and Economic Issues
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：38
• 期：1
• 页码：33-44
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Social Sciences, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Social Policy;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3475
• 卷排序：38

文摘

Guided by Rettig’s family decision-making theory, the study investigated the effect of an adult child’s decision environment, an adult child’s decision-making perceptions, and a parent’s end-of-life (EOL) planning actions before death on an integrated measure of medical and financial EOL planning actions. Data came from Wave 3 of the public use data of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Results indicated that household net worth, parent’s completion of a living will before death, and adult children’s avoidance of death ideation explained the greatest proportion of variance in adult children’s EOL planning actions. Results also indicated that women, those married, and those with higher education did more EOL planning. Practitioners can use this information to close accessibility gaps due to net worth differences, advocate for a more unified approach to EOL planning, and shift the focus of discussions of death from the death itself to a life well lived.