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Survey participants less likely to recommend life-sustaining care for patients with dementia, despite documented wishes (opens in a new tab)
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-07
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Survey participants less likely to recommend life-sustaining care for patients with dementia, despite documented wishes
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-07
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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, with researchers varying dementia status, advance directive wishes, and physician recommendations.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 6Not checkedFor patients with dementia, participants recommended life-sustaining treatment in 15.6% of scenarios with no advance directive, 41.0% when an advance directive requested life-sustaining treatment, and 7.6% when the directive requested comfort-focused care.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 6Not checkedFor patients without dementia, participants recommended life-sustaining treatment in 38.9% of scenarios with no advance directive, 66.3% when a directive requested life-sustaining treatment, and 14.4% when the directive requested comfort-focused care.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 6 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 surrogate preferences also shaped decisions.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref · 15 candidate papers
End-of-Life Education in Action: Evaluating Simulation-Based Palliative Care Training for Emergency Medicine Residents.
MedEdPORTAL : the Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources · 2026 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care
1998 · Crossref
Determinants of advance-directive completion for end-of-life preparedness among older Korean adults.
2026 · Europe PMC
State POLST Program Maturity Status and Dying in the Nursing Home or Hospice in the United States: An Event Time Study.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2026 · PubMed
Advance Directives and Outcomes of Surrogate Decision Making Before Death
Survey of Anesthesiology · 2010 · Crossref
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