Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards

Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards - PMC

Decision making with older people can be difficult because of medical complexity, uncertainty (about prognosis, treatment effectiveness and priorities), ...

Decision making with older people can be difficult because of medical complexity, uncertainty (about prognosis, treatment effectiveness and priorities), ...

(PDF) Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards

Decision making with older people can be diffi cult because of medical complexity, uncertainty (about prognosis, treatment effectiveness and ...

How Older Adults Make Health Decisions - CDC

Many older adults do not like being bogged down with tons of health information. They prefer quick and clear solutions to their health issues.

Ethical frameworks for complex medical decision making in older ...

With an ageing population physicians are more and more faced with complex medical and moral situations. Medical professional guidelines are often of limited ...

Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards. (pdf ...

Decision making with older people can be difficult because of medical complexity, uncertainty (about prognosis, treatment effectiveness and priorities), ...

Decision Making in Older Adults with Dementia | HIGN

BEST PRACTICES: Patients whose cognitive status is unclear or fluctuates need protection from two types of mistakes: first, mistakenly preventing capacitated ...

Supporting older patients in making healthcare decisions

For example, older adults tend to make decisions faster, prefer fewer choice options and express greater difficulties in understanding information about ...

Caring for older patients with reduced decision-making capacity

Being vulnerable, older patients may have reduced decision-making capacity, despite still wanting to be involved in decision-making about their ...

a systematic review and qualitative thematic synthesis - The Lancet

Perspectives of healthcare professionals and older patients on shared decision-making ... making difficult decisions or seeing them in distress.

Too complex and time-consuming to fit in! Physicians ... - BMJ Open

To take care of elderly patients with multimorbidity and enable them to participate in medical decision making were described as a challenge. This was explained ...

Decision-making capacity in older medical in-patients: frequency of ...

Decisions involving discharge planning were most often assessed (48%) followed by treatment (29%), discharge against medical advice (12%) and ...

Seniors and Shared Decision Making: Discussing Quality of Life

Many factors can affect shared decision making with senior patients, including a “doctor knows best” assumption, low health literacy, and managing multiple ...

Supporting shared decision making for older people with multiple ...

Shared decision making (SDM) involves patients and health and social care practitioners (HSCPs) jointly offering treatment, care and support ...

Assessment of older adults' decision‐making capacity in relation to ...

12. Lai and Karlawish (2007), Examine the current approaches to assessment of DMC regarding decisions about functional problems, Current ...

Evaluating Medical Decision-Making Capacity in Practice - AAFP

Use of a formal assessment tool such as the Aid to Capacity Evaluation improves accuracy in determining a patient's decision-making capacity. C ...

Decision-Making Capacity and Conservatorship in Older Adults

At this juncture in care, the patient's decision-making capacity must be determined to assure safety and prevent repeated hospital admissions. If decision- ...

How Should Clinicians Navigate Decision Making for ...

Caring for patients who lack decision-making capacity is common in health care and presents numerous practical and ethical challenges.

Home care providers' perceptions of shared decision‐making with ...

Home care providers considered the decision “to stay at home or move” as the most difficult for older adults. Those most frequently involved in ...

Using Shared Decision Making to Handle Difficult Care Decisions

It's true that not every health care decision needs to be addressed with lengthy discussions about patient goals and values, but many of the medical issues ...