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Dementia status influences end-of-life care decisions despite advance directives (opens in a new tab)
news-medical.net · 2026-10-07
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Dementia status influences end-of-life care decisions despite advance directives
news-medical.net · 2026-10-07
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Surrogate Decision-Making for Older Adults With and Without Dementia
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Claim 1 of 6Not checkedPeople were about 19 percentage points less likely to recommend life-sustaining treatment for a seriously ill patient with dementia than for a patient without dementia, even when an advance directive requested life-sustaining care.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 6Not checkedThe study, published in JAMA Network Open, surveyed nearly 6,000 U.S. adults to examine how a patient's dementia status, advance directive, physician recommendations and a surrogate decision-maker's own preferences influenced recommendations about end-of-life care.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 6Not checkedIn the randomized online survey experiment, participants reviewed scenarios involving seriously ill, hospitalized older adults and researchers varied whether the patient had dementia, what the advance directive requested, and whether a physician recommended treatment.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 6Not checkedAmong patients with dementia, participants recommended life-sustaining treatment in 15.6% of scenarios with no advance directive, 41.0% when the directive requested life-sustaining treatment, and 7.6% when it requested comfort-focused care; a similar pattern was seen for patients without dementia, with higher overall recommendation rates for life-sustaining treatment.View evidenceHide evidence
As stated15.6%, 41.0%, 7.6%; 38.9%, 66.3%, 14.4%
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Claim 5 of 6Not checkedThe findings suggest that advance directives can influence surrogate decision-making, but they are only one part of the decision-making process, and surrogates' own preferences also shaped decisions.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 6 of 6Not checkedThe authors say the results underscore the importance of choosing a health care decision-maker who understands a patient's values and of having ongoing conversations about advance care planning.View evidenceHide evidence
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