Publications by authors named "Nathalie Pfeiffer"
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to investigate how a supportive decision-making approach focusing on relational aspects can help individuals with dementia in Alzheimer's disease (PwAD) make self-determined decisions in a familiar home environment rather than a clinical one.
- Researchers will recruit 80 participants from memory clinics and use a randomized crossover design to assess if the location of decision-making affects their overall capacity to consent.
- The findings could lead to the development of new strategies for supported decision-making that leverage relational resources, prompting future research to explore effective interventions further.
Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer's disease by offering advance care planning-a prospective double-arm intervention study.
Stefanie Baisch Christina Abele Anna Theile-Schürholz Irene Schmidtmann Frank Oswald Nathalie Pfeiffer
BMC Med Ethics
December 2022
Background: Everybody has the right to decide whether to receive specific medical treatment or not and to provide their free, prior and informed consent to do so. As dementia progresses, people with Alzheimer's dementia (PwAD) can lose their capacity to provide informed consent to complex medical treatment. When the capacity to consent is lost, the autonomy of the affected person can only be guaranteed when an interpretable and valid advance directive exists.
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