Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults With Advanced Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD and Their Care Partners: Perceptions Versus Reality?

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) use intensive care at the end of life and die in a hospital more frequently than patients with cancer or heart disease. Advance care planning (ACP) can help align treatment with patient preferences and improve patient-centered care, yet ACP quality and experiences among older patients with CKD and their care partners remain incompletely understood, particularly among the non-dialysis-dependent population.

Study design

In-person interviewer-administered surveys of patients 70 years and older with non-dialysis-dependent CKD stage 4 or 5 and their self-identified care partners.

Setting & participants

42 participants (31 patients, 11 care partners) at 2 clinical sites in greater Boston.

Out

SUBMITTER: Oskoui T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384367 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature