Views of advance care planning in caregivers of older hospitalised patients following an emergency admission

Anna-Maria Bielinska, Stephanie Archer, Gehan Soosaipillai, Julia Riley, Lord Ara Darzi, Catherine Urch

OAI: oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/333201 • DOI: 10.17863/CAM.80624

This study explores the views of advance care planning in caregivers of older hospitalised patients following an emergency admission. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight carers, mostly with a personal relationship to the older patient. Thematic analysis generated three themes: (1) working with uncertainty - it all sounds very fine. . . what is the reality?, (2) supporting the older person - you have to look at it on an individual basis and (3) enabling the process - when you do it properly. The belief that advance care planning can support older individuals and scepticism whether advance care planning can be enabled among social and healthcare challenges are discussed.

advance care planning Carers Emergency admission Hospitalisation older adults advance care planning Aged Caregivers Hospitalization Humans qualitative research