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Power of attorney
It has to be signed while the person can still understand it. The planning guide has the steps; below it is what the research library holds on planning ahead in dementia.
See which documents to sign, and why the first months matter → The legal and financial planning guide: durable power of attorney, health care proxy, advance directive, and what to do once they are signed.What the research library holds
334 of the library's 27,380 studies match; 176 have it in the title. The 8 shown are the title matches first, then the highest-scoring.
The studies use the research term “advance care planning”: the conversations and documents that record what someone wants. 11 of them mention a power of attorney by name, and none is about the power of attorney as a legal instrument on its own. Rules differ by state; the planning guide says who to ask.
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Advance Care Planning Video Intervention Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
There was no significant reduction in hospital transfers per 1000 person-days alive in the intervention vs control groups (rate [SE], 3.7 [0.2]; 95% CI, 3.4-4.0 vs 3.9 [0.3]; 95% CI, 3.6-4.1; rate difference [SE], -0.2 [0.3]; 95% CI, -0.5 to 0.2).
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An Advance Care Planning Video Decision Support Tool for Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
The mean age of the 402 study residents was 86.7 years [range, 67-102 years]; 350 were white (87.1%) and 323 were female (80.3%), with DNH directives that by 6 months did not differ between arms (63% in both arms; adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.08; 95% CI, 0.69-1.69).
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Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial
Older people who view a video depiction of a patient with advanced dementia after hearing a verbal description of the condition are more likely to opt for comfort as their goal of care compared with those who solely listen to a verbal description.
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Educating Dutch General Practitioners in Dementia Advance Care Planning: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Our educational intervention increased ACP initiation, and the number of nonmedical and medical preferences discussed.
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Concordance Between Proxy Level of Care Preference and Advance Directives Among Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
Better alignment between preferences for comfort-focused care and advance directives is needed in advanced dementia.
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Advance Care Planning for African American Caregivers of Relatives With Dementias: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Knowledge of CPR, MV, TF, and self-efficacy to make EOL treatment decisions increased significantly more in the ACT-Plan group at weeks 4 and 20.
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Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: A Multimedia Education Program in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
This community-based cluster randomized trial evaluated the efficacy of a 4-week multimedia educational intervention followed by telephone consultations at Weeks 12 and 24 on the selection of a hospice program for end-of-life care and completion of an advance directive (AD) in case of future advanced dementia.
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Advance care planning among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia undergoing surgery
ACP billing codes from 6 months before to 6 months after admission for inpatient surgery.
How a study gets onto this list: its own title, summary, findings or note contains one of these terms — power of attorney, advance care planning, advance directive, health care proxy, surrogate decision, decision-making or legal capacity, guardianship, conservatorship. A study matched only in its text is shown with the sentence that matched, word for word. A score rates how much weight a study can bear, not whether its result is good news: how we score a study.