Patient- and Caregiver-Identified Goals for Advance Care Planning in Patients With Dementia or Cognitive Impairment.

ABSTRACT: Despite an aging population and acknowledged importance of advance care planning (ACP) for persons living with cognitive impairment, few engage in ACP. Most existing tools to facilitate ACP discussions focus on medical outcomes, despite research documenting that persons with cognitive impairment often have quality of life outcomes as primary goals. A tool for ACP that incorporates a range of outcomes that are most important to persons with cognitive impairment and their carers is needed. This qualitative study engaged persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and their carers to identify outcomes that are most important to inform development of a tool to guide ACP interventions with this population. We conducted interviews with 17 persons with MCI or dementia and 15 caregive

SUBMITTER: Rising KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12701091 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature