Table 2 Outline of the ACP facilitator training workshop

What is ACP?

Define the concept of ACP and the local policy on ACP and advance directives

Why people with dementia need ACP?

Understand the relevance and significance of ACP for people with dementia and recommendations for healthcare professionals

What are the roles of ACP facilitators?

Understand the roles of ACP facilitators: initiating ACP discussion, providing informational support, facilitating shared decision-making, and recording and reviewing ACP discussion

How to initiate ACP?

- Contents

Identify the contents to be discussed with individuals with dementia:

- dementia trajectory;

- health needs and daily care arrangements at the late stage of dementia;

- role of surrogate decision-makers;

- preference of life-sustaining treatments at the end-of-life stage;

- preference of financial and funeral arrangements;

- values, wishes, and goals of care

- Facilitation skills

Get familiar with the facilitation skills to initiate ACP with individuals with dementia:

- the attitude of ACP facilitators;

- the barriers to ACP engagement among individuals with dementia;

- the principles of considering the mental capacity of individuals with dementia;

- consideration of the participants’ readiness for ACP;

- the process of ACP guided by an ACP booklet