Project DECIDE, part II: decision-making places for people with dementia in Alzheimer's disease: supporting advance decision-making by improving person-environment fit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the reformed guardianship law in Germany, require that persons with a disability, including people with dementia in Alzheimer's disease (PwAD), are supported in making self-determined decisions. This support is achieved through communication. While content-related communication is a deficit of PwAD, relational aspects of communication are a resource. Research in supported decision-making (SDM) has investigated the effectiveness of different content-related support strategies for PwAD but has only succeeded in improving understanding, which, although one criterion of capacity to consent, is not sufficient to ensure overall capacity to consent. The aim of the 'spatial intervention study' of the DECIDE projec

SUBMITTER: Florack J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10148477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature