Chen and Colleagues Explore End-of-Life Care Characteristics among People Preferring a Language Other than English and People Preferring English
Posted: 4/23/2026 (CSDE Research)

CSDE Affiliate Annie T. Chen (Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education), recently worked with lead author Lauren R. Pollack, PI Rashmi K. Sharma, and co-authors, to publish a retrospective cohort study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine that compared end-of-life care characteristics among people with dementia and a preferred language other than English (PLOE) versus people with dementia preferring English. Among nearly 7,800 decedents from 2011–2021, Decedents with dementia and PLOE were more likely to have documented goals-of-care discussions and similarly likely to have ACP documents and palliative care consultation, yet had higher hospital-based healthcare utilization near end-of-life.