US clinicians' perspectives on advance care planning for persons with dementia: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although advance care planning (ACP) for persons with dementia (PWD) can promote patient-centered care by aligning future healthcare with patient values, few PWD have documented ACPs for reasons incompletely understood. The objective of this paper is to characterize the perceived value of, barriers to, and successful strategies for completing ACP for PWD as reported by frontline clinicians.

Methods

Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews (August 2018-December 2019) with clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers) at 11 US health systems. Interviews asked clinicians about their approaches to ACP with PWDs, including how ACP was initiated, what was discussed, how carepartners were involved, how decision-making was approached, and

SUBMITTER: Tjia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175113 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature