Advance Care Planning in Dementia: Do Family Carers Know the Treatment Preferences of People with Early Dementia?

<h4>Background and aims</h4>When a person with dementia (PWD) has lost the ability to make treatment decisions, clinicians often rely on family carers to know and articulate these preferences with assumed accuracy. This study used the Life Support Preferences Questionnaire (LSPQ) to expl...

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Main Authors: Karen Harrison Dening, Michael King, Louise Jones, Victoria Vickerstaff, Elizabeth L Sampson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159056