Me & My Wishes: Concordance of End-of-Life Preferences between Residents with Dementia, Family, and Staff.

ABSTRACT: Objective: Me & My Wishes involves videos of persons living with dementia talking about their end-of-life (EOL) care preferences. This study aimed to examine the concordance of EOL treatment and psychosocial preferences expressed by assisted living community and nursing home residents in these videos with family and staff knowledge of preferences. Design: Randomized wait-list control. Setting/Subjects: Assisted living and nursing home residents in the United States, and their family members and caregivers. Measurements: Five EOL treatment preferences (cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR, breathing machine, tube feeding, life support, and pain treatment) and four near EOL psychosocial preferences (having family at the bedside, engagin

SUBMITTER: Towsley GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9467629 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature