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Brandt, Martina Kaschowitz, Judith and Lazarevic, Patrick 2016. Handbuch Gesundheitssoziologie.
Van den Block, Lieve Pivodic, Lara Pardon, Koen Donker, Gé Miccinesi, Guido Moreels, Sarah Vega Alonso, Tomas Deliens, Luc and Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje 2015. Transitions between health care settings in the final three months of life in four EU countries. The European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 25, Issue. 4, p. 569.
Van Den Heuvel, W. J. A. 2015. Value Reorientation and Intergenerational Conflicts in Ageing Societies. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 40, Issue. 2, p. 201.
Adena, Maja and Myck, Michal 2014. Poverty and transitions in health in later life. Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 116, p. 202.
Meñaca, Arantza Evans, Natalie Andrew, Erin V.W. Toscani, Franco Finetti, Silvia Gómez-Batiste, Xavier Higginson, Irene J. Harding, Richard Pool, Robert and Gysels, Marjolein 2012. End-of-life care across Southern Europe: A critical review of cultural similarities and differences between Italy, Spain and Portugal. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, Vol. 82, Issue. 3, p. 387.
Ayalon, Liat 2011. The prevalence and predictors of passive death wishes in Europe: a 2-year follow-up of the survey of health, ageing, and retirement in Europe. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. 26, Issue. 9, p. 923.
This article aims to provide an initial account of the life circumstances of older people in 11 continental European countries during the year prior to their deaths. It focuses on regional variations in functional limitations and sources of support. Using logistic regression we analyse data from 523 end-of-life interviews in 2006–07, collected for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (Wave 2) about the respondents who had died since the baseline data collection in 2004–05. The prevalence of functional limitations was found to be fairly consistent across Northern, Central and Southern Europe. Significant regional differences existed, however, with regard to the deceased respondents' main sources of support and the locations of their deaths. Northern Europeans were the least likely to receive help from their family only and the most likely to be supported by non-kin. They also exhibited the highest risk of dying in a nursing home. In Mediterranean countries, a pattern of exclusive family support and dying at home prevailed. The findings support the notion of a ‘mixed responsibility’ of families and welfare states as providers of support for older people in the last year of life.
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