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October 1, 2025Nursing Older People

Role of nurses in supporting advance care planning for people living with dementia

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SHSusan HollandMMMark MillerMSMary-Anne Sheeran

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Overview

This analysis highlights how nurses can facilitate advance care planning conversations, suggesting training enhances their effectiveness in the multidisciplinary team.

Key Points

  • Advance care planning helps align future care with the values and preferences of individuals living with dementia.
  • Many people living with dementia miss opportunities for meaningful advance care planning, leading to unmet end of life care needs.
  • Nurses are critical members of the multidisciplinary team able to initiate timely advance care planning conversations.
  • Enhancing collaborative healthcare services includes providing training and mentoring for nurses in advance care planning practices.

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Holland et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dd89d7fe798ba2fc497a97https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2025.e1521
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