More than one-quarter of elderly patients lack decision-making capacity at death

Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 04:49 in Health & Medicine

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 of 3,746 people to be published April 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine...

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