Implementing advance care planning in early dementia care: results and insights from a pilot interventional trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance care planning (ACP) is particularly appropriate for persons with early dementia (PWED) since it promotes conversations about dementia-specific illness scenarios, addresses inconsistencies between advance directives and patients' observed behavior, emphasizes prospective and relational autonomy, and may be generally consistent with older persons' decision-making needs. However, despite evidence of its benefits, ACP is yet to become widely used among PWED. In this paper, we present a dementia-specific tool developed in Western Switzerland, discuss results of a pilot trial designed to promote ACP among PWED and their relatives, and discuss the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and the study protocol in prevision of a large scale trial.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Bosisio F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature