Results 21 to 30 of about 1,817 (214)

Knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of elderly individuals regarding advance care planning: Questionnaire development and testing.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundStudies have indicated that the advance care planning knowledge and attitudes of elderly individuals strongly affect their implementation of advance care planning.
Hui-Chuan Cheng, Li-Shan Ke, Su-Yu Chang, Hsiu-Ying Huang, Yu-Chen Ku, Ming-Ju Lee   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advance Care Planning [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
Predictors of patient wishes and influence of family and clinicians are discussed. Research findings on patient decision-making relating to preferences in end-of-life care are described. Advance directives and durable powers of attorney are defined and differentiated.
Barbara L, Kass-Bartelmes, Ronda, Hughes
openaire   +4 more sources

Exploring the Attitudes and Needs of Advance Care Planning Practice Among the Working Generation

Tokyo Women's Medical University Journal, 2022
Background: This study explores the working generation's attitudes and needs regarding advance care planning and the factors associated with its practice.
Takako Iwasaki, Ayako Kou, Nozomi Harasawa, Miki Morishita-Kawahara, Chihiro Yamagata, Haruyo Moriya, Mari Ikeda, Hiroko Nagae   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advance care planning in primary care [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
O f the various trajectories of physical decline, organ failure is often the most difficult to plan for in advance because of its unpredictability.1 The qualitative study by Davison and Simpson in this week's BMJ challenges the notion that early discussion of planning for the end of life will destroy hope rather than create it.
Murray, S. A, Sheikh, A., Thomas, K.
openaire   +3 more sources

Perinatal Palliative Care Birth Planning as Advance Care Planning

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020
Purpose of Review: A significant number of pregnancies are complicated by a fetus with a life-limiting diagnosis. As diagnoses are made earlier in the pregnancy, families experience anticipatory grief and are faced with navigating goals of care for a ...
DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo, DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo, DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo, DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo, Kelstan Ellis, Kelstan Ellis, Amy Schlegel, Amy Schlegel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

How to increase public participation in advance care planning: findings from a World Café to elicit community group perspectives

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background In 2014, Alberta, Canada broke new ground in having the first provincial healthcare policy and procedure for advance care planning (ACP), the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future healthcare preferences.
Patricia D. Biondo, Seema King, Barinder Minhas, Konrad Fassbender, Jessica E. Simon, on behalf of the Advance Care Planning Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunities Program (ACP CRIO)   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prospective multicentre cross-sectional audit among older Australians accessing health and residential aged care services: protocol for a national advance care directive prevalence study

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Advance care planning (ACP), an ongoing communication and planning process, aims to clarify a person’s values and preferences, so these guide decision-making if the person becomes unable to make his or her own decisions. Ideally, ACP results
Karen M Detering, Kimberly Buck, Helana Kelly, Marcus Sellars, Craig Sinclair, Linda Nolte, Ben White   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Muslim perspectives on advance care planning: a model for community engagement

Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2021
Background: Advance care planning is the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future health care preferences. Despite its importance, knowledge of advance care planning is limited, especially among the Islamic community.
Alya Abbas Heirali, Sidra Javed, Zaheed Damani, Rahim Kachra, Sabira Valiani, Al-Karim Walli, Philippe Couillard, Rose Geransar, Jessica Simon, Safiya Karim   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Choosing Life, Not Suffering

Voices in Bioethics, 2014
In his 2010 New Yorker piece titled “Letting Go,” Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the case of Sara Thomas Monopoli, a 34-year-old woman with inoperable and metastatic lung cancer.
Mytra Haerizadeh, Dylan Marshall
doaj   +1 more source

Advance Care Planning in the Elderly [PDF]

Medical Clinics of North America, 2015
Key components of advance care planning (ACP) for the elderly include choosing a surrogate decision maker, identifying personal values, communicating with surrogates and clinicians, documenting wishes in advance directives, and translating values and preferences for future medical care into medical orders.
Lum, Hillary D, Sudore, Rebecca L, Bekelman, David B   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources