Time for More Support? Stakeholder Engagement for a Long-Term Care Planning Dementia Decision Aid Prototype.

ABSTRACT: Clinical decision aids around long-term care can help support persons living with dementia (PLWD), family care partners, and healthcare providers navigate current and future care decisions. This study describes the iterative development of a long-term care planning dementia decision aid and explores care partner and geriatric providers' insights regarding its acceptability and usability. Using a convergent parallel mixed methods design, we gathered surveys and completed interviews with 11 care partners and 11 providers. The quantitative and qualitative data were then converged, resulting in four findings: (1) helpfulness of the decision aid in supporting future care planning; (2) versatility of the decision aid in practice; (3) preferences for structure and content of the decision aid; and

SUBMITTER: Huber K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10064152 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature