Background: Clinical practice relies on surrogates to make or help to make treatment
decisions for incapacitated adults; however, the effect of this practice on surrogates has not …

The process of advance care planning in dementia is far from straightforward; as dementia
progresses, the ability to consider future thoughts and actions becomes compromised, thus …

The traditional objective of advance care planning has been to have patients make
treatment decisions in advance so that clinicians can attempt to provide care consistent with …

Background. With the increasing complexity of decisions in pediatric medicine, there is a
growing need to understand the pediatric decision-making process. Objective. To conduct a …

Background: In dementia care, a large number of treatment decisions are made by family
carers on behalf of their family member who lacks decisional capacity; advance care …

Context Advance care planning (ACP) has focused on documenting life-sustaining treatment
preferences in advance directives (ADs). The ADs alone may be insufficient to prepare …

BACKGROUND Although numerous studies have addressed external factors associated
with difficulty in surrogate decision making, intrapersonal sources of tension are an …

Research investigating collective decision-making has focused primarily on the
improvement of accuracy in collective decisions and less on the motives that drive …

Importance Hospitalized older adults often lack decisional capacity, but outside of the
intensive care unit and end-of-life care settings, little is known about the frequency of …

Background and Aims When a person with dementia (PWD) has lost the ability to make
treatment decisions, clinicians often rely on family carers to know and articulate these …