Fig. 2

Influences on care preference stability, arranged according to whether they tend to stabilise or destabilise preferences. Key: Position in the figure denotes whether an influence tends to support preference stability (left) or preference instability (right). The influences are categorised according to our model of influences on care preferences in frail older people following acute illness. [18] 1. ‘multiple preferences’ and ‘context specific preferences’ only influenced stability of the preference ranked most important. All other influences affected both the importance rating of preferences, and ranking of the most important