Background: Advance care planning aims to ensure that care received during serious and
chronic illness is consistent with the person's values, preferences and goals. However, less …

Background Dementia can have a profound impact on decision making. People living with
dementia (PLwD) often need to make decisions about health care, and, as dementia …

Abstract Background Of the Swedish people with advanced dementia, the majority die in
nursing homes. Unresolved pain can occur in people with a terminal illness such as …

Mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) increases with age, and those over 80
are particularly vulnerable (Verity et al., 2020). Most national data on COVID-19 will …

Background Brain tumor patients are at high risk of impaired medical decision-making
capacity (MDC), which can be ethically challenging because it limits their ability to give …

Background In the UK, district nursing services (DNS) deliver care to people intheir own
homes and have regular contact with people with dementia. Research conducted with …

Objectives: We aimed to critically evaluate decision aids developed for practitioners and
caregivers when providing care for someone with dementia or for use by people with …

Background People living with dementia account for a large proportion of deaths due to
COVID-19. Family carers are faced with making significant and emotive decisions during the …

Background Many people with dementia reach the end-of-life without an advance care plan.
Many are not ready to have conversations about end-of-life, and decision-making is left to …

Background This scoping review aimed to investigate the presence of discordance or
concordance in the perceptions of end-of-life (EOL) care quality between consumers (ie …