Theme: Shared Decision-Making

The challenge of decision-making and minimizing regret: “Families can make different decisions from day to day.”

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The challenge of decision-making and minimizing regret: “Families can make different decisions from day to day.”

Palliative care physician Dr. Terri Major-Kincade describes what she has learned about how and why families may change their minds from day to day. There are so many reasons this can happen – subtle shifts, emotional, logical, practical. She describes how she communicates with and supports caregivers to try to minimize their regrets, and how important it is to honor what they say they want. (So much good teaching in here.)