December 31, 2018
Condition-Specific Pamphlets to Improve End-of-life Communication in Long-term Care: Staff Perceptions on Usability and Use
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(18)30641-8/fulltextThis article reports findings on the usability and staff use of 5 condition- specific pamphlets of high prevalence in long-term care (LTC): dementia, heart failure, chronic […]
December 31, 2018
Communication training and its effects on carer and care-receiver outcomes in dementia settings
https://plus.mcmaster.ca/kt/Articles/AlertedArticle/83619January 7, 2019
Planning ahead with dementia: what role can advance care planning play?
https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2018.14706Advance directives emerged in the 1960s with the goal of empowering people to exert control over their future medical decisions. However, it has become apparent, over […]
January 7, 2019
What Does the Word “Treatable” Mean? Implications for Communication and Decision-Making in Critical Illness
https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/onlinefirst/What_Does_the_Word__Treatable__Mean__Implications.96066.aspxQualitative study using in-depth interviews to explore how nonphysicians and physicians interpret the word “treatable” in the context of critical illness.