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New paper: A cross-sectional survey of healthy young adults on advance care planning preferences.

20/3/2020

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When a young person is likely to die from their disease, good conversations around end-of-life are one of the key things that can make a difference in their care. Unfortunately, a lot of the time these conversations happen too late, or not at all. We need research to find out how young people think about end-of-life to help improve the care and communication they receive. Lyon and colleagues’ (2019) recently wrote about the end-of-life preferences and opinions of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with HIV/AIDS. Their study found that earlier end-of-life conversations are appropriate, and it highlights some of the preferences that AYAs have at end-of-life.  
We thought this paper was a really interesting addition to the field, so we wrote a letter in response to Lyon and colleagues’ study, comparing their results to our recent survey exploring the end-of-life communication and care preferences of healthy AYAs. Take a look at the infographic to see what we found.
 
Looking at Lyon and colleagues’ and our research together highlights that AYAs have preferences for their care at end-of-life well before dying, but that families may not always know these preferences. Our survey also suggests that healthy AYAs even have similar preferences to AYAs with diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer.  
Earlier end-of-life conversations among families and healthcare professionals could prevent ‘mis-matches’ in end-of-life preferences and the care they get, and improve the likelihood of AYAs receiving care according to their wishes. However, work is still needed to understand the barriers to these important conversations, particularly what might be happening psychologically, “behind the scenes”. My PhD work looks at how attachment (or, in other words, whether and how people feel secure and safe in their closest loving relationships) might influence the way that AYAs talk about death, using healthy AYAs to start exploring these new ideas. We will be publishing some of this work very soon and I look forward to talking about it more on our blog! 

This paper was led by Holly Evans, the full text can be found here: http://spcare.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmjspcare-2019-001963 
 
The paper referenced by Lyon and colleagues can be found here: https://spcare.bmj.com/content/9/1/e22 

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