Factors associated with initiation of advance care planning in dementia: a systematic review.

Background: Planning ahead may be particularly relevant in dementia considering patients' cognitive decline and difficulty to predict the course of the dementia.

Objective: To identify factors associated with initiation of advance care planning (ACP) regarding end-of-life issues in dementia.

Methods: Systematic review of the PubMed, Embase, Cinahl, Psychinfo, and Cochrane databases until January 2013.

Quality of dying of nursing home residents with dementia as judged by relatives.

Background: Providing good quality care for the growing number of patients with dementia is a major challenge. There is little international comparative research on how people with dementia die in nursing homes. We compared the relative's judgment on quality of care at the end of life and quality of dying of nursing home residents with dementia in Belgium and the Netherlands.