![]() Her research interests over the last 20 years include the early identification and remediation of literacy difficulties in children, the relationships between spoken and written language skills, and the educational potential of technology. ![]() In 2000 she received the International Reading Association’s Reading / Literacy Research Fellowship which is given to “a researcher residing outside the US or Canada who has shown exceptional promise in reading research”. She primarily teaches developmental and educational psychology and has been awarded the British Psychology Society’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology. Prior to that she was Executive Director of the Centre for Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement at Coventry University. “Such a debate is long overdue and we are providing a further step with our study,” says Marcus Ebeling.Professor Wood joined Nottingham Trent University in May 2017. Insights into how people experience the end of life are necessary before a debate can be held about the process of death and what "good" dying really means. ![]() This allows us to draw a direct link between the different paths to death, age at death, and mortality in the overall population,” says Marcus Ebeling. “Our approach involves the total population, including those who are traditionally difficult to reach, such as people in nursing homes. Previous studies often focused on specific sub-aspects of pre-death healthcare or the social environment of the dying, and have usually relied on smaller samples of data, such as from hospitals or hospices. “As far as we know, our study is one of the first with a comprehensive database of all deaths over the age of 70, showing the circumstances under which people die,” says Marcus Ebeling. First study valid for the entire population As the researchers note, it is these trajectories that are likely to be relatively expensive for the healthcare system. In addition, after analyzing the data, the researchers recognize that advanced medical care and nursing needs are even more common among deaths over 83 (the current average life expectancy in Sweden). “Our results show that most people over 70 in Sweden are in long-term care during the last year of life,” says Marcus Ebeling. Using a novel study design, the team identified six different types of trajectories to death, depending on whether and how much medical care and elder care was needed in the last year of life. ![]() Studying all deaths in Sweden between 20, the researchers looked for the first time at the last year of life for persons at age 70 years and older. The present study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, contributes to this ongoing discourse. Demographers worldwide have been investigating for decades whether increasing life expectancy also brings more years of life in good health or instead longer periods of illness. “Our results indicate the hypothesis that rising life expectancy, especially at older ages, is partly due to a prolonged death process,” says Ebeling. This is shown in a new study by Marcus Ebeling, a demographer at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and his two colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Most deaths do not correspond to what we often call a "good" death - when one still has control over their own body and mind, and requires little health or hospice care.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |