Educating Aging Service Agency Staff About Discussing End-of-Life Wishes

摘要: Seventy-five percent of Americans support the idea Advance Directives (ADs) but less than 20% complete one, resulting in increased hospitalization costs, unwanted treatment, and difficult family decisions. Engaging community resources for public education may be effective increasing understanding completion ADs. This project focused on workers an agency serving older adults. A training program was developed with goal their process benefits Health Care Proxies (HCPs) ADs through hands-on experience, relevant skills willingness to discuss consumers, implement protocol documentation HCPs consumers. After a small proof-of-concept pilot, all staff members were asked participate educational program. The pilot delivery found knowledge as well motivation among themselves own families. resulted s...