Survey participants less likely to recommend life-sustaining care for patients with dementia, despite documented wishes
People were about 19 percentage points less likely to recommend life-sustaining treatment for a seriously ill patient with dementia than for a patient without dementia, even when an advance directive requested life-sustaining care, according to new research from the University of Colorado Anschutz.
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