Table 1.
ACP+ intervention components, intervention activities and materials (results of step 1, prior to evaluation of feasibility and acceptability).
Table 2.
Description of final intervention according to TIDieR: The ACP+ program (results of step 3).
Fig 1.
Timeline of the final ACP+ program.
ACP advance care planning; BoD board of directors; CAP coordinating advisory physician; ACP Ref Person advance care planning reference person; FP family physician. The figure outlines the timeframe of the ACP+ program as how it will be evaluated in the subsequent trial. *Nursing homes are legally obliged to have at least one coordinating and advisory physician (CAP) (remunerated according to the number of beds), who coordinates medical care in the facility, as well as reference nurses for palliative care (0.10 FTE per 30 residents) [46]. †Important decision-makers include head of nursing staff, head of residents’ care, management; all those involved with decision-making tasks in the nursing home.