Heart failure scenario game to help older adults and caregivers plan future care
Tests a tabletop game about heart failure care planning for older adults and caregivers.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Development and Evaluation of a Disease-oriented Scenario Game to Promote ACP Among Older Adults and Family Caregivers
Key facts
- Where
- Taipei, TaiwanSee the site
Where in Taiwan
- Taipei Veterans General HospitalTaipei, TaiwanNo longer taking part
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
- Trial code
- NCT07883369
- Record updated
- 20 October 2026
- Original description
Current advance care planning (ACP) tabletop games mostly focus on exploring "personal values." While a few explore care preferences through "hypothetical scenarios," they are not disease-oriented, which can create discrepancies between the scenarios or medical treatments and the patient's actual condition and may fail to capture the patient's true preferences. A systematic review found that disease-oriented ACP interventions effectively capture patients' and their families' preferences for medical treatments because they closely reflect the patient's actual disease progression. However, no disease-oriented scenario games are currently available. Therefore, this study, using heart failure as an example, aims to develop and evaluate the impact of disease-oriented scenario games on older adults and family caregivers in ACP.Read full original descriptionShow less
Development and Evaluation of a Disease-oriented Scenario Game to Promote Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults and Family Caregivers: Heart Failure as an Example (Part 2)
Current advance care planning (ACP) tabletop games mostly focus on exploring "personal values." While a few explore care preferences through "hypothetical scenarios," they are not disease-oriented, which can create discrepancies between the scenarios or medical treatments and the patient's actual condition and may fail to capture the patient's true preferences. A systematic review found that disease-oriented ACP interventions effectively capture patients' and their families' preferences for medical treatments because they closely reflect the patient's actual disease progression. However, no disease-oriented scenario games are currently available. Therefore, this study, using heart failure as an example, aims to develop and evaluate the impact of disease-oriented scenario games on older adults and family caregivers in ACP.
Inclusion: Older adults aged 65 years or older with heart failure and their family caregivers; Older adults with heart failure are defined as those with ICD-10 codes, and the first three digits of the older adults' ICD code must be I50; Family caregivers must be over 18 years of age.
Exclusion: Older adults with heart failure or whose family caregivers refuse to participate; Severe intellectual disability or inability to understand the research instructions or explanations provided by the researchers; Inability to communicate in either Mandarin or Taiwanese; Severe sensory or expressive impairments (e.g., visual or auditory impairments or aphasia).