This analysis highlights how nurses can facilitate advance care planning conversations, suggesting training enhances their effectiveness in the multidisciplinary team.
Key Points
Advance care planning helps align future care with the values and preferences of individuals living with dementia.
Many people living with dementia miss opportunities for meaningful advance care planning, leading to unmet end of life care needs.
Nurses are critical members of the multidisciplinary team able to initiate timely advance care planning conversations.
Enhancing collaborative healthcare services includes providing training and mentoring for nurses in advance care planning practices.