Clinician perspectives on successes and challenges in engaging care partners
Howard Chertkow · 2025
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Howard Chertkow wrote a 2025 discussion paper on the friction that can arise between clinicians, researchers, and care partners in dementia work. Involving caregivers in research and care planning is essential to good medicine. Yet the parties can honestly disagree, and those disagreements deserve realistic handling rather than slogans.
One example is Alzheimer trial enrollment. Caregivers rarely join from pure altruism, and a failed or placebo-arm trial can push them to withdraw. Balancing their autonomy with a trial's need for completion is delicate. A second example is prognosis: who shapes the story told to the patient, especially where medical assistance in dying is legal, as in Canada. Chertkow sketches approaches for each clash. The paper argues candor about disagreement strengthens partnerships.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Howard Chertkow |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |