More than 1/4 of elderly lack decision-making capacity at death.
2,155 views · Published 31 March 2010 · 2:44 · Indexed 6 October 2026
Channel: Michigan Medicine · 2010 · Science & Technology
More than one in four elderly Americans lacked the capacity to make their own medical care decisions at the end of life, according to a study by U-M researchers of 3,746 people to be published April 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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