This research provides a content analysis on blank medical advance directive (AD) documents distributed in San Francisco Bay Area's hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and hospice agencies and online dementia-specific directives based on the service gaps within advance care planning (ACP) conversations and AD documentation. The global health crisis affecting people living with dementia (PLWD) creates major concerns that using the current AD is inadequate for surrogate decision-making and inconsistent with values from a capabilities approach. Methodology includes literature review to inform research design and creation of content-categories, and inter-rater reliability to confirm categories and units of analysis. Implications for social workers include the recommendation to use the Dartmouth Dementia Directive for social justice advocacy for PLWD and cultivating capabilities approaches for aging older adults.
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