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A qualitative study with people with young-onset dementia and their family caregivers on advance care planning: A holistic, flexible, and relational approach is recommended.

Romy Van RickstalDe Vleminck AlineSebastiaan EngelborghsJan VersijptLieve Van den Block
Published in: Palliative medicine (2022)
Engagement in advance care planning might be hindered if it is too medicalized and exclusively patient-centered. To accommodate advance care planning to people with young-onset dementia's and their caregivers' needs, it should be presented and implemented as a holistic, flexible, and relational communication process. Policy and practice recommendations are provided on how to do so.
Keyphrases
  • advance care planning
  • mild cognitive impairment
  • healthcare
  • cognitive impairment
  • middle aged
  • public health
  • primary care
  • mental health
  • clinical practice
  • quality improvement