Irrelevant interests? A qualitative study into how German family surrogates of persons living with dementia fulfill their legal role as advocates of an advance directive

DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATION: Our findings lead us to critique the legal construction of family surrogates as advocates of the AD. Family members are directly and enduringly affected by the end-of-life care decisions that the AD sets out and are thus no neutral agents who have no stake in the matter. Expecting them to simply transmit decisions formulated in the AD means expecting them to render their own interests irrelevant - which, arguably, might be too much to ask.PMID:37650918 | DOI:10.1093/geront/gnad119
Source: The Gerontologist - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Source Type: research