Advance care planning in nursing homes: new conversation and documentation tools

Annelien Wendrich-van Dael; Joni Gilissen; Liesbeth Van Humbeeck; Luc Deliens; Robert Vander Stichele; Chris Gastmans; Lara Pivodic; Lieve Van den Block

doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003008

Advance care planning in nursing homes: new conversation and documentation tools

Annelien Wendrich-van Dael, Joni Gilissen, Liesbeth Van Humbeeck, Luc Deliens, Robert Vander Stichele, Chris Gastmans, Lara Pivodic, Lieve Van den Block

Family Medicine and Chronic Care

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Although advance care planning (ACP) is highly relevant for nursing home residents, its uptake in nursing homes is low. To meet the need for context-specific ACP tools to support nursing home staff in conducting ACP conversations, we developed the ACP+intervention. At its core, we designed three ACP tools to aid care staff in discussing and documenting nursing home resident's wishes and preferences for future treatment and care: (1) an extensive ACP conversation guide, (2) a one-page conversation tool and (3) an ACP document to record outcomes of conversations. These nursing home-specific ACP tools aim to avoid a purely document-driven or 'tick-box' approach to the ACP process and to involve residents, including those living with dementia according to their capacity, their families and healthcare professionals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	312-317
Number of pages	6
Journal	BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care
Volume	11
Issue number	3
Early online date	23 Jun 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003008
Publication status	Published - Sep 2021

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In: BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, Vol. 11, No. 3, 09.2021, p. 312-317.

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