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Using the Experiences of Bereaved Caregivers to Inform Patient- and Caregiver-centered Advance Care Planning
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Background Traditional approaches to advance care planning (ACP) have many limitations; new approaches are being developed with the goal of improving end-of-life care.Objective To understand how the end-of-life care experiences of older patients and their caregivers can inform the development of new approaches to ACP.Design Qualitative cross-sectional study.Participants Caregivers of community-dwelling persons age > or = 60 years who died with advanced cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or heart failure during follow-up in a longitudinal study.Approach In-depth interviews were conducted 6 months after the patient's death with 64 caregivers. Interviews began with open-ended questions to encourage the caregiver to tell the story of the patient's experiences at the end of life. Additional questions asked about how decisions were made, patient-caregiver, patient-clinician, and caregiver-clinician communication.Main results Although the experiences recounted by caregivers were highly individual, several common themes emerged from the interviews. These included the following: 1) the lack of availability of treatment options for certain patients, prompting patients and caregivers to consider broader end-of-life issues, 2) changes in preferences at the very end of an illness, 3) variability in patient and caregiver desire for and readiness to hear information about the patient's illness, and 4) difficulties with patient-caregiver communication.Discussion The experiences of older patients at the end of life and their caregivers support a form of ACP that includes a broader set of issues than treatment decision-making alone, recognizes the dynamic nature of preferences, and focuses on addressing barriers to patient-caregiver communication.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fried, T. R., & O’Leary, J. R.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fried, Terri R.
- ORCID
- Fried, Terri R.
- Venue
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2008-07-30
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1602-1607
- ISSN
- 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1497
- PMC
- PMC2533358
- OpenAlex
- W1980493544
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 7.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (K24AG028443, R01AG019769, K24 AG28443, R01 AG19769)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- advance care planning, bereaved caregivers, end-of-life care, older adults, caregiver-patient communication, dynamic preferences, treatment decision-making, advanced cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, community-dwelling patients, caregiver experiences
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Participation, Caregivers, Hospice Care, Advance Care Planning
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