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

open access: yesBMC 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combining top-down and bottom-up change management strategies in implementation of ACP : the My Wishes program in South West Sydney, Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Attempts to introduce advance care planning (ACP) and make it a part of normal clinical practice present signifi cant challenges and one way of approaching these is to utilise the change management literature.
Johnston, Lynda   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Models of advance directives in mental health care: stakeholder views [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
<i>Objective</i>: The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of the place of advance directives in mental health care. <i>Methods</i>: Postal survey of stakeholders was carried out to assess their views on different ...
Garner, Helen C.   +8 more
core   +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

open access: yesBMJ 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesPalliative 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   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experiences With Advance Care Planning: Nurses' Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The aim of this paper is to report the findings of a case study that explored the phenomenon of advanced care planning and advance care directives in residential care settings in Australia.
Jeong, Sarah Yeun-Sim   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Patient preferences for future care - how can Advance Care Planning become embedded into dementia care: a study protocol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background - People living with a long term condition may wish to be able to plan ahead, so that if in future they cannot make decisions, their wishes about their care will be known; this process is termed Advance Care Planning (ACP).
Emmett, Charlotte   +29 more
core   +1 more source

Choosing Life, Not Suffering

open access: yesVoices 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

Dialysis Patients' Preferences for Family-Based Advance Care Planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
BACKGROUND: Most patients do not participate in advance care planning with physicians. OBJECTIVE: To examine patients' preferences for involving their physicians and families in advance care planning.
Badzek, Laurie A.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A whole-of-community program of advance care planning for end-of-life care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Since 2015 a whole-of-community program to promote advance care planning (ACP) within one Queensland Hospital and Health Service (HHS) catchment has spread statewide, financed by Queensland Health (QH) agencies and led by the Statewide Office of Advance ...
Reymond, Liz   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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