Publications by authors named "Hazirah Mohamad"
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about safe distancing measures that are unprecedented. This article details the impact of the pandemic across research studies involving older persons in Singapore, and assesses the different strategies used to adapt to their needs in the context of evolving public health measures. The pandemic exposed diverse experiences of vulnerability among older persons, pushing for critical reflections on ethics of participation and social inclusion as the new research normal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Many older adults with severe dementia receive potentially life-extending treatments even when caregivers do not wish to prolong their life inappropriately.
Objective: Explore factors that influence caregiver preferences for potentially life-extending treatments for older adults with severe dementia, and reasons for discordance between overall end-of-life care goal and treatment preferences.
Design: Semi-structured in-depth interviews asking caregivers their overall end-of-life care goal for older adults and preferences for intravenous (IV) antibiotics, tube feeding and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Context: Dementia involves suffering. Assessing the experience of suffering among persons with severe dementia is instrumental to delivering quality end-of-life care to them and their caregivers.
Objectives: We aimed to assess dimensions of suffering from the perspective of family caregivers and the resulting impact on their decisions for the care of persons with severe dementia.
Background: Evidence suggests that tube feeding persons with severe dementia (PWSDs) does not improve survival or quality of life, yet many continue to be tube fed. Reasons why caregivers choose to do so are not entirely understood.
Objective: To understand what shapes caregiver preference toward nasogastric (NG) tube feeding for community-dwelling PWSDs.