Educating Dutch General Practitioners in Dementia Advance Care Planning: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

November 20, 2019
JAMDA

Advance care planning (ACP) is seldom initiated with people with dementia (PWD) and mainly focuses on medical end-of-life decisions. We studied the effects of an educational intervention for general practitioners (GPs) aimed at initiating and optimizing ACP, with a focus on discussing medical and nonmedical preferences of future care.