Engaging in the Life-planning in Early Alzheimer's and other Dementias advance care planning intervention is associated with perceived advance care planning concordance and interpersonal connectedness.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Persons living with dementia often rely upon a care partner as their surrogate medical decision maker, yet little is known about how dementia care dyads achieve advance care planning (ACP) concordance: when a care partner fully understands a care recipient's values and preferences as best they can. Examining data from a pilot study of the online Life-planning in Early Alzheimer's and other Dementias (LEAD) intervention to better understand how dyads achieve perceived ACP concordance, we hypothesized that: (1) engaging in ACP was associated with perceived ACP concordance, (2) perceived ACP concordance was associated with interpersonal connectedness, and (3) engaging in ACP was associated with interpersonal connectedness.

Research design and methods

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SUBMITTER: Bybee SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12494457 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature