Empower Seriously Ill Older Adults to Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department

Background: Most seriously ill older adults visit the emergency department (ED) near the end of life, yet no feasible method exists to empower them to formulate their care goals in this setting. Objective: To develop an intervention to empower seriously ill older adults to formulate their future care goals in the ED. Design: Prospective intervention development study. Setting: In a single, urban, academic ED, we refined the prototype...