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Table 2 Participants' assessment of the value of ARDs

From: Motivations for people with cognitive impairment to complete an advance research directive – a qualitative interview study

Assessment

Illustrative quote(s)

Positive

I want to decide about my life myself, at least I want to, as long as I can. DBM6

And again, it is important for me to emphasise, it is more important to help others than myself. DBM8

Negative

I just don’t like to commit myself in advance. DBW7

Not sure/ ambivalent

Partly it is certainly something good, but as we were saying you do not know what will be in a few years, what the situation will be like. DBM3