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- Title
How do you measure the success of advance care planning and what should we now be focusing on?
- Authors
Davies, Nathan
- Abstract
The author examines the role and importance of advanced care planning in dementia and factors and issues that need to be focused on to endure effective planning and decision-making. He asserts the need to shift the attention and consider how to support discussions and decision-making in the later stages of dementia. He emphasizes the need to focus on communication strategies and approaches to engage the patient meaningfully.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of dementia; CAREGIVER attitudes; CAREGIVERS; EVALUATION of human services programs; TERMINAL care; NURSING home patients; FAMILY support; UNCERTAINTY; SATISFACTION; DO-not-resuscitate orders; ADVANCE directives (Medical care); FAMILY attitudes; PATIENT-family relations; DECISION making; HEALTH attitudes; HOSPITAL care; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; PROXY
- Publication
Age & Ageing, 2023, Vol 52, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0002-0729
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1093/ageing/afad048