Volicer Ladislav, Stets Karen
School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2016 Feb;33(1):55-63. doi: 10.1177/1049909114554078. Epub 2014 Oct 13.
Some individuals fear living with advanced dementia and may even commit suicide if they receive dementia diagnosis. Living with advanced dementia could be prevented if a person who cannot feed himself or herself would not be fed by others. The purpose of the study was to find out how acceptable would be an advance directive that includes discontinuation of feeding at certain stage of dementia for relatives of persons who died with dementia. All participants of 2 focus groups would be willing to indicate at least 1 condition in which they would not want to be fed. Some of them would be willing to make a proxy decision to stop feeding in the absence of advance directives.
一些人害怕患晚期痴呆症生活，甚至在被诊断出患有痴呆症时可能会自杀。如果一个无法自行进食的人不被他人喂食，那么晚期痴呆症患者的生活是可以避免的。这项研究的目的是了解对于患有痴呆症去世者的亲属而言，一份包含在痴呆症特定阶段停止喂食内容的预先指示能被接受的程度。两个焦点小组的所有参与者都愿意指出至少一种他们不想被喂食的情况。他们中的一些人愿意在没有预先指示的情况下做出代理决定停止喂食。
