ArticleBMC family practice2021
Information meetings on end-of-life care for older people by the general practitioner to stimulate advance care planning: a pre-post evaluation study.
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- Two-thirds of older people is interested in information meetings on end-of life care to stimulate advance care planning: a national survey.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Assessment of multi-professional primary healthcare center quality by patients with multimorbidity.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- End-of-life health literacy, knowledge and behaviours towards advance care planning among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland.BMJ public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo increase knowledge about options people have concerning end-of-life-care issues, General Practitioners (GPs) can organise meetings to inform their older patients. We evaluated these meetings, using the following research questions: How did the attendees experience the information meeting? Was there a rise in Advance Care Planning (ACP) behaviour after the information meeting? Was there a change in trust people have that physicians will provide good care at the end of life and that they will follow their end-of-life wishes after the information meetings?
methodsFour GPs invited all patients of 75 years and older registered in their GP practices to the meeting via a written letter. Four meetings of 2 h took place in 2016. Meetings started with a presentation on end-of-life topics and ACP by the GP followed by time for questions. A pre-post evaluation study was done using written questionnaires distributed and filled in at the start of the meeting (T
resultsIn total 225 older people attended a meeting of which 154 (68%) filled in the questionnaire at T
conclusionInformation meetings on end-of-life care by GPs have a positive influence on the occurrence of ACP, both with the physician and others. Although, this method especially reaches the older people that are already interested in the subject, this seems a relatively easy way to stimulate ACP.
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