Religiositeit en stemming in de laatste levensweek

The current contribution focuses on the role of religiousness on aspects of mood in the last week of life. After-death interviews with proxy respondents of deceased participants of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam provided information on depressive mood and anxiety in the last week of life, as well as on a sense of peace with the approaching end of life. Furthermore, the proxy respondents were asked about serious physical symptoms in the last week of life, cognitive decline, salience of religion, and whether the deceased respondent had talked about religion. Other characteristics were derived from the last interviews with the respondents when still alive: depressive symptoms, religious affiliation, church-attendance, orthodoxy, salience of religion, and cosmic transcendence.