Demenz aus palliativmedizinischer Perspektive: warum ein krankheitsspezifisches Advance Care Planning wichtig ist

Jox, Ralf J.; Bosisio, Francesca und Truchard, Eve Rubli (2018): Demenz aus palliativmedizinischer Perspektive: warum ein krankheitsspezifisches Advance Care Planning wichtig ist. In: Therapeutische Umschau, Bd. 75, Nr. 2: S. 105-111

Abstract

Palliative Care has to transform profoundly in the context of population aging in many countries around the globe. It has to collaborate increasingly with geriatric medicine and incorporate geriatric expertise. One of the pivotal challenges of geriatric palliative care is ethically appropriate decision making for patients who have lost decision-making capacity. While the traditional approach to advance directives (living wills) has demonstrably proven ineffective, the new approach that is currently being embraced, including in German-speaking countries, is the systemic process of advance care planning (ACP). In this article, ACP is first presented with its general aims, elements and effects. Second, it is shown why we need an adapted ACP program for people with dementia and what such a dementia-specific ACP must entail.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0040-5930
• Sprache: Deutsch