Patient Priorities Care Article: Study Finds Health Priorities Identification Helpful for Persons Living With Dementia
Yale University School of Medicine has released an article, "Study Finds Health Priorities Identification Helpful for Persons Living With Dementia," about a Patient Priorities Care pilot study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS).
The article highlights new research published in JAGS that looks at perspectives of persons living with dementia and their care partners as they completed a guided, health priorities identification process (HPIP). The HPIP is an evidence-based tool that can be used to support cognitively intact older adults with multiple chronic conditions to identify and communicate their health priorities.
Researchers found that persons living with dementia and multiple chronic conditions enjoyed the process and appreciated having their care partner present and actively listening, and that "making care partners aware of the health priorities of the persons living with dementia early in the dementia course may better prepare them to be care proxies by ensuring care is aligned with what matters to the person living with dementia."
Yale University School of Medicine published a second article, "Patient Priorities Care Receives $3 Million Grant to Expand" on Patient Priorities Care's renewal grant from JAHF to continue and spread their work.
Read the article on the pilot study.
Read the article on grant renewal.
Go to the pilot study published in JAGS.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of PPC.