Proxies who watch advanced care planning video more likely to withhold feeding tubes

(Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered that nursing home residents with advanced dementia are more likely to have advance directives that indicate they did should not get feeding tubes after their proxies viewed a 12-minute video on advance care planning.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2Jox03R