Shared care planning in people with cognitive disorders and dementia: a survey among patients and caregivers in Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is wide convergence in the positions of scientific societies, patient associations and public bodies regarding the advisability of advance care planning (ACP) in cognitive disorders and dementia to respect the specificity of the person. Nevertheless, planning in advance for dementia represents a unique challenge. In Italy, law n. 219/2017 introduced ACP for the first time at the regulatory level, under the name of shared care planning (SCP). Few surveys on the law implementation have been conducted in Italy, but none have specifically involved patients with cognitive disorders and their caregivers. To contribute filling the gap, we conducted a survey among patients and caregivers attending a memory clinic to investigate what their knowledge, attitudes and experienc

SUBMITTER: Porteri C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660457 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature