Journal of palliative medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Me & My Wishes: Concordance of End-of-Life Preferences Between Residents with Dementia, Family, and Staff.
Objective: Me & My Wishes involves videos of persons living with dementia talking about their end-of-life (EOL) care preferences. This study aimed to examine the concordance of EOL treatment and psychosocial preferences expressed by assisted living community and nursing home residents in these videos with family and staff knowledge of preferences. Design: Randomized wait-list control. ⋯ Conclusion: Our findings indicate that sharing Me & My Wishes videos improved family and staff concordance of EOL psychosocial and treatment preferences for assisted living and nursing home residents living with dementia. Personalized videos conveying resident preferences can help informal and formal caregivers understand the resident as a person and foster concordant care. Clinical Trial Registration Number NCT03861429.