Experiences with approaches to advance care planning with older people: a qualitative study among Dutch general practitioners.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Advance care planning (ACP) with older people needs to be approached differently than ACP with patients with a terminal illness. ACP is still used with only a minority of older patients due to a lack of knowledge regarding appropriate approaches to ACP with older people. General practitioners (GPs) may play a key role in ACP with older people. Therefore, we explored their experiences with and views on approaches to ACP with older patients in daily practice.

Design, setting and participants

A qualitative study among a purposive sample of 19 Dutch GPs based on semistructured interviews.

Results

Approaches to ACP with older patients can be divided into two categories: systematic and ad hoc. Systematic approaches consisted of discussing a fixed combination of t

SUBMITTER: Glaudemans JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6254415 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature