Background Advance care planning (ACP) encompasses a process by which people may
express and record their values and preferences for care and treatment should they lose the …

Context End-of-life care for people with dementia can be poor, involving emergency hospital
admissions, burdensome treatments of uncertain value, and undertreatment of pain and …

Abstract Introduction: The Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Project is a
substudy within the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), an ongoing nationally …

A team from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE) was commissioned by Marie Curie to explore the …

Importance Patients with chronic illness frequently use Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining
Treatment (POLST) to document treatment limitations. Objectives To evaluate the …

Background As the demand for palliative care increases, more information is needed on
how efficient different types of palliative care models are for providing care to dying patients …

Background: Advance care planning is a process of discussion and review concerning
future care in the event of losing capacity. Aimed at improving the appropriateness and …

Objective Less aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care has been observed when health care
professionals discuss approaching EOL and preferences about life-sustaining treatments …

The Medicare hospice benefit was originally designed around a cancer disease paradigm
but increasingly serves people living with dementia. At this time, almost half of all older …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Although Alzheimer disease and other dementias are life
limiting, only a minority of these patients or their proxy decision makers participate in …