Planning Ahead: protocol for a randomised trial of advance care planning for community dwelling older adults at increased mortality risk.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An important goal of advance care planning (ACP) is ensuring that patients receive care concordant with their preferences. High-quality evidence is needed about the effect of ACP on this and other outcomes.

Methods and analysis

Planning Ahead is a randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of facilitated ACP in community-dwelling older adults including those with normal cognition and those with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) who are at high risk of death. The primary aim is to determine the effect of the intervention on discordance between preferences for medical treatments and the treatments received in the year after the intervention. Secondary outcomes include decision-making quality, care at the end of life and cost. Eligible pat

SUBMITTER: Torke AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12104946 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature