Qualitative evaluation of advanced care planning in early dementia (ACP-ED).

BACKGROUND: End-of-life-care is often poor in individuals with dementia. Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve end-of-life care in dementia. Commonly ACP is completed in the last six months of life but in dementia there may be problems with this as decision-making capacity and ab...

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Main Authors: Michaela Poppe, Sarah Burleigh, Sube Banerjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3629937?pdf=render